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So let me get this straight. After 3mn bucks of funding and a few vanity demo's on techcrunch and this the output is a DIY 3D printed with a 120mhz microcontroller that you solder together? Are you fucking kidding me?

A opensource file that cannot drive on El Camino? Clearly The investors are very disappointed and pushed to see some material traction which is a DIY kit akin to the ones sold at hobby shops.

Sorry but calling Musk out publicly and claiming you are going to destroy Tesla is easy and clearly easier said than done and nothing more than attention grabbing stunts.

Hotz - you realized building something real is not easy as talking out loud with your mouth full? Next time swallow the food before you talk buddy and take a little taste of humble pie because a year in and a DIY kit as milestone is joke.

Everything is a process. We've spent under $1 million so far. And we've produced an ADAS system that surpasses all other manufacturers besides Tesla. Oh and we give it away for free.

https://github.com/commaai/openpilot

Try it before you hate :)

PS: We also have cloud dashcam apps linked from http://comma.ai

I agree with all the arrogant part but calling it a joke is probably too early. Self-driving is a very hard problem and expecting miracles is just too much to ask.

Agree - perhaps joke is a bit over the top... however its a DIY kit at best a project many accomplished graduate or these days undergrad teams could produce within months especially at leading institutions, berkley, stanford, etc.

I guess my "joke" comment was from the perspective of investors putting in upwards of 3mn angel round.

I think a better metric to look at could be how much of the 3m has been burnt to produce this. Factoring that in would be a more saner approach to evaluating.

But more importantly I am just happy about the fact that somebody who believes in open-source is taking up the project. Self-driving cars are a distant future and can only be accelerated when a lot of eyes see what is happening. OpenAI is most likely the product of the same ideology.

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