And yes, that happened http://www.getcruise.com/
Seems they recently raised $15m http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/18/cruise-2/
Wonder how they compare tech wise to Geohot's thing
I'd prefer my autonomous cars to have gone through insane amounts of testing, regulation, etc. This is just too new of a field, and the amount of edge cases you have to handle is practically infinite.