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George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles | Lex Fridman Podcast #31

Lex Fridman's two-hour podcast with George Hotz, founder of Comma.ai, covering openpilot, autonomous driving and Hotz's views on AI and technology.

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HN recommends it for Hotz's reasoning on cameras versus lidar and for an opinionated, original thinker's overview of comma and openpilot.

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I strongly recommend Lex Firdman’s recent interview with George Hotz where they covered this topic in some detail [VIDEO]
mark_l_watson on Hacker News · 2019-08
In Camera vs. Lidar
I loved this interview Lex Fridman had with George Hotz. He's very opinionated original thinker with the credentials to back it up. He runs comma.ai, sellers of a device that can plug into many cars and drive for you. [VIDEO]
bko on Hacker News · 2020-12
In Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?
There's a few Lex Fridman podcasts with George Hotz, the founder. Highly recommend them: #31 [VIDEO] #132 [LINK] #387 [LINK]
nomel on Hacker News · 2026-01
In Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands

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Google Self-Driving Car Project | SXSW Interactive 2016
SXSW · 2 HN recommenders
Chris Urmson's SXSW 2016 talk on Google's self-driving car project, covering 1.3 million self-driven miles and the gap between hype and reality. It shows sensor visualizations and playbacks of hard situations the cars met, and discusses failures such as the low-speed bus collision.
ai.bythebay.io: George Hotz, Self-Driving Lessons from Comma AI
FunctionalTV · 3 HN recommenders
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.
Sacha Arnoud, Director of Engineering, Waymo - MIT Self-Driving Cars
Lex Fridman · 3 HN recommenders
Sacha Arnoud, Waymo's Director of Engineering, gives a lecture in MIT's 2018 deep learning for self-driving cars course on the rise of machine learning in autonomous vehicles. It covers how Waymo uses deep learning and how it handles tricky driving situations.