Comma 3X: Initial Impressions
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If it's serious to the point you don't know if you can keep the car going straight, how can you guarantee you can stop or react in other ways in an emergency? I don't see how this is OK, you shouldn't be driving.
> There are different regulations about driving with certain health conditions based on where you live. For example, South Carolina and Utah, USA do not have any stipulations about driving with a vestibular condition. However, US federal law requires that you stop driving until any vertigo attacks are controlled and well regulated.
https://vestibular.org/blog/should-you-drive-with-a-vestibul...
I am disabled, unemployed, and live alone and have no other reliable access to transportation. What else am I supposed to do? Simply stop existing?
I am well aware that I am taking a huge risk. It is harm reduction. And as the main underlying issue is anxiety, simply having a safety net (or even the perception of a safety net) has significantly cut down on the anxiety.
Right, but you're not just risking yourself here, mate. Please reconsider whether or not you should be operating heavy machinery.
Which means when you do inevitably kill someone and ruin the lives of their friends and family you will be culpable and spend a long time in jail.
You are morally on par with a drink driver and deserve zero sympathy from anyone.
You're not the one taking the main risk though: that would be the cyclists and pedestrians around you (as well as other motorists, to a lesser degree).
I appreciate the difficulty of your situation and I really don't want to be a judgemental jerk to you. But also ... yeah, based on what you've written this really doesn't sit well with me.
There's a reason people with things such as epileptic seizures are not permitted to drive unless they're 1) medicated for it, and 2) been free of seizures for a period of time to prove the medication works reliably.
That seems utterly insane to me. Even people driving with severe disabilities are expected to maintain continuous control of their vehicle. Anything else is willfully endangering others
The one thing I worry about though is that they really were promising a lot with the new MLSIM training architecture, and consensus (and my own anecdotal experience) is that these newer models have not been great. They've been working on MLSIM for a whiiiiiile now and there really hasn't been any improvement, though I fully endorse why they are going that way and I understand the difficulty of the problem.
Steering is about 25% better than HDA when solely based on lined lanes, but the 3X is able to adapt to situations that the LKA/HDA would just disengage (such as passing through an intersection) or a random car parked on the side of the road.
I routinely use it even on NYC streets and grass parking lots. It's about 80% accurate in avoiding unexpected cars and larger obstacles or following simply a "laid down" grass trail from a previous car in a grass lot or field.
I did buy it expecting results like in the "Taco bell" video -- and was disappointed under those expectations at first, but after a reality check I still decided to keep it and have easily driven 40,000 miles with it since.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_Unit...
Police can pull someone over for faulty equipment, but that would generally have to be an egregiously obvious defect.
From a federal level, the primary thing that is illegal to modify is emissions equipment (however, if a vehicle is registered in a state without inspections, even that is essentially unenforced)
In much of the US, you can legally drive just about anything with brakes, seatbelts, lights, wipers, turn signals.
US is a heaven for car enthusiasts, builders, fabricators, modders, etc
As far as I know, none of the other countries allow any kind, small or big, of modification to their cars. And, any changes like engine oil must be done by a pro. Too bad for them, they've killed a multi-billion-dollar industry themselves and thousands of jobs too.
If it's open source, why can't you?
>driving model ... will only get better over time
Citation needed
> I don’t seem to be having as much vertigo when driving
If keeping your license is a goal, I wouldn't admit to this publicly. That's aside the ethical issues discussed elsewhere in this thread.
There are also subtle precautions that not everyone knows. For example, I was taught that when waiting for traffic to clear for a left turn (in the US and other right hand driving countries), I should keep the wheel straight until immediately before I accelerate. That way, if someone rear ends me, I go forward rather than left into oncoming traffic. I suspect there are other techniques like that that I'm not aware of.
Most cars with these features also have features where they will beep/vibrate at you if you're going outside of the lane or it seems like you're going to have a collision.
To me this just looks like a generic dashcam
openpilot is an open source advanced driver assistance system that works on 300+ car models of Toyota, Hyundai, Honda, and many other brands.
Automated Lane Centering
Adaptive Cruise Control
Lane Change Assist
Driver Monitoring (no wheel nags)
Can drive for hours without intervention
Open source and developed on GitHubThey have demonstrated full self driving capabilities with a car driving “itself” to Taco Bell. I have a comma3 and have never had much success with that feature. The car drove itself very slowly and seems to just weirdly creep through stop signs. I think the last time I tested that was over a year and a half ago, so it may have improved.
I use mine only on the highways. I noticed for long trips (6+ hours), I can drive longer distances in one go and not feel as fatigued when I reach my destination. As an example, a 10 hour trip to visit family (11-12 hours including stops) I can do by myself in one day with the comma device instead of stopping halfway, or splitting driving time with someone else. For shorter trips (3-6 hours), I arrive to my destination with more energy than when I drive without these features. I am also able to focus more on potential obstacles further down the road than without it.
I think my device has already paid for itself thanks to a couple year period where I had to do that 12 hour trip I mentioned a couple times per month. Plus it is a really nice dash cam.
How can you be confident the system is at least as reliable with the concerns you are less focused on?
That's my current heartache with my Comma: it does a stunningly shitty job about decelerating into brake lights ahead, choosing rather to keep accelerating (or I guess keeping speed) and then slamming on the brakes as it gets a few feet from the car. OT1H, it's never actually put me in danger, OTOH I don't want "next time" to be the bad luck
Not only does that make me super nervous, it's also a rear-ending risk (since the poor Comma can't see what's behind me)
I haven't worked up the nerve to build and flash one of the 18 quadrillion forks onto my Comma; I've heard some of them are better, but that some word is doing a lot of work
I'm surprised you've even had any success. Are you a Comma Prime subscriber or something? Because mine absolutely gives no shits about red (or yellow!) lights, stop signs, "danger, sharp curve ahead," nothing. If it's the open road, lucky me. If there's the slightest decision to make, best to disengage
Of course. And if you were to do something stupid like take your hands off the wheel it would constitute reckless driving. Which means in an accident your warranty is void, insurance claims extinguished and you would be criminally liable for any bodily damage/death.
I will never understand the logic of anyone using a product like this.
Comma could come installed with open pilot and some limited liability, but it puts it all on you having you install it yourself. That is making less and less sense to me as they mature. I would think they could take on some liability, and still have the ability to defend themselves in cases where an accident was due to reckless use (e.g circumventing eyes on road tracking) or improper installation.
[1] https://blog.moseleycollins.com/will-gm-take-responsibility-...
you crash your car (mechanical problem) -> Ford says "not our fault, we're not paying" -> you sue Ford -> court decides
you crash your car (FSD problem) -> Tesla says "not our fault, we're not paying" -> you sue Tesla -> court decides
you crash your car (Comma problem) -> Comma says "not our fault, we're not paying" -> you sue Comma -> court decides
And I say this as someone who considered trying out the project.
That's only if you sent Tesla a written notice within 30 days of purchasing that you wished to opt out of the binding arbitration clause in the purchase agreement you had to agree to to get the car.
Any autopilot/self driving/driver assistance system with a couple of very narrow exceptions(waymo etc..) is only an assistant and does not remove your responsibility to operate your vehicle safely.
> It’s open source
> I can just move this device into the new one, rather than being beholden to the car’s manufacturer who at best wants to charge an exorbitant subscription fee for this stuff
Unless things changed recently, the model isn't open source so not really open source but more importantly, something about the comparison between "open source" and the "exorbitant" price of $99/month rubs me the wrong way. Opens ource isn't generally free to develop, and if you'd be willing to buy and install this it clearly provides more than $0 of value to OP - why wouldn't they want to invest some money a month into the project so that it sticks around and continues to mature? Why is open source always treated as the "free" option just because it costs _you_ $0 to download it and why Is $99/m exorbitant? Compared to what?
But it requires for me to not only reverse engineer, but potentially also modify the firmware of my ABS unit to allow it to brake, which I am not comfortable doing.
1: I believe it's possible to opt out, and believe it's also possible to change the upload endpoint to a storage bucket that you control, if you do want the segments just not for Comma to have them
Yeah LDN I do found a bit helpful! Worth a try but ymmv. r/cfs is good.
LDN isn't a cure for me... just another 10% in the tank.