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> The $999 price point is designed to be affordable, and is possible because of the components Comma uses in its product, which tend to be inexpensive off-the-shelf electronics.

"Inexpensive off-the-shelf electronics" aren't rated for automotive environmental conditions, nor do they have the immunity to interference (e.g., single event upsets) required for safety-critical systems.

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Off-the-shelf in the context of electronics means that they didn't custom design some parts of it (for example using a SoC module rather than custom DDR layout), not that the parts are consumer rated.

It is more than just parts though. To get past the more demanding EM compatibility/immunity certs you have to design the whole product with that in mind, at which point it stops being off-the shelf or inexpensive.

Which SoC is it? Jetson?

Snapdragon 820

Nice. Same as these guys? http://www.nauto.com/

So you could basically deploy this as software only, on recent 820 based smartphones? Just need a fish eye lens attachment and CAN bus to USB cable (or USB OTG GPIO)

Just wait until Comma.ai causes an accident and the NHTSA finds they can't do an analysis of the system because that system is an end-to-end neural network.

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