[Barrin92]

>Their tech is within the top two right now,

how can anyone make that statement in the same breath as declaring that dodging regulators is fine? Who the hell evaluates the quality of the product if not regulators?

Are we supposed to take George Hotz's or the companies word for it?

[shiftpgdn]

I am a comma user, engineer and autonomous vehicle enthusiast. Comma truly is second only Tesla if we leave out Waymo, but Waymo is only operating in Geofenced areas.

I have used every single pilot assist out and they're all quiet frankly terrible in comparison. I will give GM Supercruise a nod in how well it's done but again, it's Geofenced.

[kick]

You can use it; you don't have to take Hotz's word, or the company's word for it. How everything works is completely open, and it works pretty well. Also, see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21987585

[anfractuosity]

I thought the computer vision model wasn't open?

[pbreit]

The quality of a product is pretty much always determined by the marketplace, not regulators.

[cranky_coder]

I feel like the Boeing 737 MAX situation is a clear demonstration that this isn’t really the case, especially in the realm of safety regulations.

[sokoloff]

It seems to me like the market has developed a better idea of the product quality there than the regulators initially did.

[DesolationJones]

It's open sourced. Everyone is able to evaluate quality.

[Barrin92]

The people who are consumers of these products are not necessarily software engineers, so no everyone cannot evaluate the quality of these products. Secondly, the models are not open source, and even if they were looking at them tells them nothing about the quality of the product.

The only way to actually access the quality of these products is through independent testing by a body that is qualified and reputable enough to do so. Which in my opinion should happen before even a single one of these devices is actually allowed to participate in regular traffic.

[DesolationJones]

It was made fully opened sourced last year.

https://medium.com/@chengyao.shen/decoding-comma-ai-openpilo...

[jsjohnst]

> it was made fully opened source

Unless something changed I missed, the part I emphasized is not true. There’s binary blobs in the source code that last I heard would not be released.