[taneq]

At risk of being snarky, I'm not sure 'engineering company' is the right moniker. They're an R&D shop making bleeding edge research available on a homebrew platform that can interface with recent vehicles to provide a level 2/3 driver assistance package.

The stuff required to pass the regulators is the long, slow, boring process of pushing reliability and failure modes into "safe" territory, while documenting the fact. This is the 'engineering' part. Making a system that works (probably, most of the time) isn't engineering, it's hacking.

[rsync]

"At risk of being snarky, I'm not sure 'engineering company' is the right moniker. They're an R&D shop ..."

... doing their R&D on public roadways, with unwitting / unwilling participants.

[ProZsolt]

They are hackers. Geohot, the founder did iPhone and Play Station jailbreaking in the past. I wouldn't buy any safety critical equipment from them. They motto could be literally: go fast and break things.