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Re:Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands by nodja on Friday January 23, 2026 @11:48PM (#46741144)
> My <device> already comes with built in <software> why would I install anything else?

Top voted comment on hacker news btw.

Ok that was probably unnecessarily snarky I hope you don't take offense, but it seems the hacker spirit has been fading more often from this site, we used to replace stuff with inferior versions just to see if we could.

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Re:Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands by fragmede on Saturday January 24, 2026 @01:38AM (#46741556)
Unfortunately, a quick google seems to say no one's ported Doom to the Comma hardware just yet!
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Re:Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands by mikeayles on Saturday January 24, 2026 @03:57AM (#46742096)
If geohot is involved, it wouldn't suprise me if it was the first proof of concept for each new hardware variant.
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Re:Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands by labcomputer on Saturday January 24, 2026 @01:42AM (#46741577)
Speaking of hacker spirit... Comma has a lot of restrictions on what software you can load / what changes you can make to the software.
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Re:Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands by paool on Saturday January 24, 2026 @02:09AM (#46741679)
No it doesn't?

You can run stock, or any fork simply by providing the URL of the version you want to run.

Where exactly is the restriction?

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Re:Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands by LorenDB on Saturday January 24, 2026 @06:11PM (#46748695)
https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/master/docs/SAFETY... - they will ban your device from the training set if you run an unsafe fork.
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Re:Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands by ehnto on Saturday January 24, 2026 @08:38PM (#46749768)
That seems very reasonable, doesn't it? Otherwise the fork could pollute the training data through bad modifications, and tracing that would be a pain.
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Re:Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands by s3p on Saturday January 24, 2026 @07:51AM (#46743135)
What? It's literally open source, you can ssh into the thing and change whatever you want. I am running a fork of a fork of the code right now. I change things all the time.
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