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>> Automakers and Comma are operating at completely different scales. Orders of magnitude apart.

>Super Cruise has 7 million miles driven [0]. Comma has 35 million miles driven [1]

Tesla has likely exceeded 4,000 million miles with Autopilot at this point versus Comma's 35. That certainly qualifies as "different scales" and "orders of magnitude apart".

It is also frankly bizarre that the author of this article barely even mentions Tesla while treating Cadillac and Audi as the primary competitors for Comma.

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I'm the author. I agree Tesla is miles ahead, but they're not offering the same product.

Comma is comfortably level 2 self driving, essentially lane keep. They don't detect red lights or stop signs, the don't have navigation or even maps. It just keeps you going in a straight line, with or without lane markings. It's much more comparable to something like Super Cruise.

My point was that lane keep assist technology exists as features in new cars. That's the target market and that's what comma should be benchmarked against. If you have a problem with comma's safety features you should have an even bigger issue with that of the large auto makers.

Sorry if this comes off as rude, but this comment shows you don't really know what you are talking about. Tesla offers two driver assistance products. There is Autopilot and Full Self-Driving Capability. All Autopilot does is autosteering and adaptive cruise control[1]. The more advance stuff like detecting red lights and stop signs are part of the FSD package which needs to be purchased separately. Autopilot and Comma seem like natural fits for a direct comparison.

[1] - https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot

That's fair. I honestly didn't look into Tesla because I'm almost certain they're more advanced and a comparison would be kind of pointless. Tesla is better than comma.ai, but from what I've seen, comma.ai is at least comparable to the non-Tesla adaptive cruise control.

We believe Tesla is 1-2 years ahead of us, and that's held fairly true since the beginning of comma.

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How do you factor HD mapping into the equation, like the one used by the Cadillac CT6?

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