George Hotz Cancels His Self-Driving Car Project "Comma One" After The NHSTA Expresses Concern In Writing

The showtime person to e'er jailbreak the iPhone, George Hotz (as well known past his alias geohot), started a self-driving project a while ago that has at present been canceled. The project involved using an subsequently-market place kit that was called "Comma Ane" and price $999. The kit was capable of adding semi-autonomous motorcar features to regular cars like Honda Civics and some Acura cars. Hotz canceled the project post-obit a letter sent to Comma.ai, the company endemic by Hotz responsible for running the projection. The letter was from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHSTA) and it expressed concern about the project by Hotz in the post-obit words that the product "would put the safety of [Comma.ai's] customers and other route users at adventure."

Comma AI will at present exist excavation into other markets before long

The total letter is available on the Comma.ai Twitter account (you lot can simply click here to read information technology). The NHSTA not but sent the aforementioned business organisation just it too asked for some more than information regarding the Comma I, according to The Verge. After which Hotz wrote how he:

"would much rather spend my life building amazing tech than dealing with regulators and lawyers. It isn't worth it." He went on to write that he was canceling Comma 1 and that Comma.ai "volition be exploring other products and markets."

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The letter never unsaid that Hotz should close downwards the Comma One project immediately, instead in the letter of the alphabet the Government Agency said that it "strongly encourage[south]" Comma.ai to either delay selling or deploying Comma One on public roads "until [Comma.ai] can ensure it is safe."

Recently Hotz wrote in a blogspot that the Comma One project "volition not turn your machine into an autonomous vehicle. It is an advanced commuter assistance arrangement." But not everyone was convinced and that is why the agency found information technology fit to inquire more about the system.

George 'geohot' Hotz presenting the Comma One.

Consumers could've pushed the company to make the system more than merely for "driver assistance"

The NHSTA had a business organization that consumer pressure volition button the company to get beyond the initial design of the Comma Ane every bit a mere assistance system but and would desire something more than that, merely as the case was with Tesla. So they wanted to make sure that the whole project was safety plenty to be used, this was evident in their letter of the alphabet.

"As you are undoubtedly aware, there is a high likelihood that some drivers will use your product in a style that exceeds its intended purpose," Paul A. Hemmersbaugh, NHTSA's chief counsel, writes. "This creates a safety risk to drivers using your production than their passengers and other road users because the vehicle may not respond as expected if it is operating in a manner for which information technology is not designed."

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