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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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