You sound like a really unsafe driver who shouldn’t be on the road, period.
Driving fatigue is nearly eliminated
I mean, I get what he's trying to say, but it's a bit scary.
THIS IS ALPHA QUALITY SOFTWARE FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A PRODUCT.
> I might or might not have fallen asleep one night on a long road trip and awoken to my car driving along happily
My nightmare is getting smashed to pieces by people like you and your insurance refusing to pay because you found it funny to fiddle with your car. You being bankrupt will not help me.
Drivers like you ruin lives.
"Drivers like you end lives."
I bought a car in 2023. It's my first ever. I was 55 years old.
I am a lifelong cyclist and motorcyclist. I love bikes. But in 2023 I had a debilitating accident with life-changing injuries, and I had to stop riding upright bikes.
I now drive several times a week. I still don't like it. But I do understand the pressures and risks facing car drivers much better. Oh, and this car is an automatic, so I understand those more too; I had never driven an automatic before, because I'm not American. I learned to drive in 1986 or so, and got my license about 20 years later. 100% manual gearboxes all the way.
Making cars safer for the occupants and easier to drive is THE WORST THING TO DO. There are decades of research in risk compensation demonstrating why.
This company's own webpage is awful. It merely says:
« The comma 3X is custom hardware designed to live in your car, and purpose built to run openpilot. »
It does not explain what "openpilot" is or does, and does not even bother to link to it.
This is a bad thing. It is not to be encouraged.
This should have been a sign to re-evaluate your relationship to driving, not to double-down on becoming reliant on Comma. What a horrifying anecdote.
It's far better at driving than either FSD or Autopilot, though it doesn't navigate or change lanes without input, but for long road trips those things don't matter to me at all.