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ai.bythebay.io: George Hotz, Self-Driving Lessons from Comma AI

George Hotz of Comma AI gives a 2017 conference talk on lessons from building a self-driving system. He argues about how driving should be defined and why the common approach to autonomous vehicles is flawed.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters point to it as a candid, contrarian view of self-driving approaches and the real limits of the business.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
FunctionalTV
Topic
self-driving cars
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2018–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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  • Pipe dream. Even if a driverless car was to exist.. it has to contend with millions of other vehicles all being driven by human beings. George Hotz has a killer talk about why the general approach to autonomous vehicles is flawed. I highly recommend it. …

    whalesalad on Hacker News · 2019-12
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  • George Hotz had a great point about this and how Comma.ai handles defining the driving problem and what "driving badly" actually means, aka, interacting with and driving as other humans are expected to drive, quirks included. His whole talk is interesting but the short part …

    arich on Hacker News · 2018-05
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  • You might want to have a look into the public output of George Hotz. Obviously he is a little biased towards his own efforts, but he is very open about limitations and the actual reality of the self driving business. [VIDEO] Note: He regularly runs …

    dna_polymerase on Hacker News · 2021-04
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