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Re:We Tested Comma AI's OpenPilot by BunsanSpace on Friday October 16, 2020 @08:27AM (#24800116)
I think thats the ultimate plan, but if you listen to GeoHotz talk about it, he really wants an economical self driving solution. E.g. waymo cars cost 100k+ and thus isn't economical.

It's also opensource so I think the end game is to have manufactures adopt this and go through the whole song and dance of getting it full validated on their vehicles.

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Re:We Tested Comma AI's OpenPilot by cartoonworld on Friday October 16, 2020 @01:44PM (#24803145)
Also likely selling access to the ml model and/or training data. Openpilot is accruing many trips/miles for their dataset, the model and data isn't open-source.

That appears to be where the gold is stashed to my eyes.

If the software is open source and works very well, comma will still have a long lead in developing a great self driving model for which the bricks are miles driven down the road in normal commutes and trips by real drivers in real world conditions.

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