I would say he is irrelevant but that doesn’t discount his work. He found a niche in the autonomous driving space that targets a very specific technically-inclined consumer. In the grand scheme of the space it’s no where near adequate for mass market and the average driver. It’s a much bigger problem than Hotz and his work.

Did George fully move on from Comma? I saw he was stepping back from the CEO position, but I guess I assumed he's still tinkering with the core AI stuff in the background.

I wonder if Comma hit a roadblock or a plateau.

I'm not smart enough to be impressed by the jailbreaking, but Comma was a long term project making physical objects you can buy and use while driving in your car right now. And from what I've seen the tiny company was keeping up with Tesla and KIA and others. Better in some ways, worse in others. But especially impressive considering it wasn't even built into the car.