Comma.ai, self-driving cars and indefinite optimism

Re:Comma.ai, self-driving cars and indefinite optimism by nicpottier on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @12:39PM (#26156486)

Man, you have a lot of hate for CR. I think their report makes it very clear that these aren't recommendations of systems in any way but rather an attempt to start formalizing testing and the state of various systems that are out there. In multiple places they say this is a report FOR THE INDUSTRY, not consumers.

They even have a specific callout for Comma:

> A determination was made to include the Comma Two Open Pilot system manufactured by > Comma.ai. Although Consumer Reports does not endorse after-market modifications to all > consumers, we feel that it is important to include the test results in this report to the industry. The > direct comparison of this system to the other OEM systems will hopefully provide insight on this > alternative approach and highlight the areas across the industry that have room for improvement.

It is at least SOMETHING. I haven't seen anything else even close to as formalized that looks across all the various systems out there. Do you have better ones to look at?

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Re:Comma.ai, self-driving cars and indefinite optimism by 23iofj on Thursday February 18, 2021 @02:22AM (#26176968)

> these aren't recommendations of systems in any way

This is a deflection. I'm responding to a comment that stated:

>> as they state on their website, they scored #1 for best at that by Consumer Reports compared to the stock offerings

CR is irresponsible for issuing ranked scores while saying in the fine print that these scores aren't actually recommendations.

That they didn't foresee comma.ai using their recommendation in marketing only makes them that much more irresponsible.

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