Openpilot – open-source self-driving agent

Re:Openpilot – open-source self-driving agent by rightbyte on Sunday May 12, 2019 @03:08PM (#19893784)

Of course it's extremely cool. I wish this existed when I was in uni and we built self driving prototypes. I also remember how often we messed up completely and would have killed our self if it weren't for us driving at 10 km/h on closed off air strips.

The thing is how this project explicitly tells people to use it is way over the line.

"THIS IS ALPHA QUALITY SOFTWARE FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A PRODUCT. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLYING WITH LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS. NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED."

This is not going to help Hortz or the other programmers in the project when the government is coming for them.

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Re:Openpilot – open-source self-driving agent by djsumdog on Sunday May 12, 2019 @03:36PM (#19893982)

This would have been great for the DARPA team back in grad school. But yes, even back then our DARPA crew limited car speed to 10mph during a lot of the initial work, and it was either out in the old football field or the campus police would let us tape off the parking lot in the engineering building on weekends.

Even as far as the open source tech has come, videos fulling explaining how to use this in production on real roads is pretty irresponsible; especially since there are no warnings in the videos and no claims of liability.

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