[fsociety]

He didn't write the article, it's not his fault it comes off as cocky. He is tackling an impressive project on his own, and spitting in the face of corporations. He should be giving talks at DEFCON about this, teaching people how he did it.

Your comment screams a superiority complex, but I bet that you are actually a nice person in real-life. Hotz is doing good work, and everyone in the technical field is relying on work done decades before they were born.

[lawnchair_larry]

He should give talks at defcon teaching people how he did it?

You mean like this one, from Defcon in 2013?

http://hackaday.com/2013/07/26/defcon-presenters-preview-hac...

Or The Defcon 19 How To CanBus Hack Workshop, that taught classes about this in 2011?

http://www.canbushack.com/blog/index.php?title=learn-to-canb...

Unfortunately for him, defcon prefers original content, not someone claiming credit for what has been demonstrated repeatedly in previous years.

[benliong78]

He sure didn't write the article, but looking at him and what he's saying on the video gives me the same impression of cockiness. But I bet he's actually a nice person in real life. ;)

It's an impressive personal project, no doubt about that. It's however also important to recognize the difficulty of having a system that works in mass production and handles all kinds of situation. Like someone said earlier it's easy to have the car drive in clear day with very visible markers. The hard part is when it rains, when it's foggy, when things are less optimal, etc.

Once he get to that point he'll find that part to be a lot harder than what he's accomplished so far.

[ocdtrekkie]

A good point. I did some HTML for my elementary school when I was a kid, and the local newspaper put me up as a 'whiz kid' on their front page. Not that anything I did was shockingly complicated in the slightest, even for the web of that era. Journalists hype stuff, that's nothing new.