George gave me a demo drive and a tour around comma offices after our podcast chat. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:30 - Comma demo drive 8:14 - Tour of comma offices
A small advice, you can use a wide angle lens if you're filming interiors (car, office). Makes your video look better, and me less nauseous from motion sickness. Love your videos, cheers!
Imagine the same kind of vibes but touring a scientist’s lab, or a mathematician’s study. More of these would be cool. Nice to see where the magic happens.
@@freddyfozzyfilms2688 I think you're right, but I would love to take a tour of Eric Weinstein's study, or peruse the notebooks of Terry Tao, look at the chalkboard of John Conway. The everyday objects of brilliant people can be fascinating.
Love it when two engineers talk without the BS. IMHO, George actually undersold the Comma a bit. I have a Prius Prime using OP with ZSS (a better, community created steering sensor) and I use mine all the time not just for highways, but even in city traffic - even for longitudinal - which is SOOOO much better that Toyota’s automatic cruise control - especially in stop n’ go traffic.
cyclist.py is optimised to maintain momentum at all costs, near misses also enable the adrenaline bonus branch - might be worth using a different data set for the next iteration..
After having it a year in my Subi I forget how mind-blowing it is to ride in an openpilot car - thanks for the reminder! Did a 2 hour trip from San Diego to Apple Valley - at this point I just take it for granted, hop on the highway, engage it, and (mostly) sit back and enjoy the scenery. At this point my only source of anxiety and the source of most of my disengagements are not the capabilities of openpilot, but the unpredictability of the bad (notoriously distracted socal) drivers around me. While most cases you can't help what the other driver does, hypothetically the system could incorporate some defensive driving. The one stand-out is blindspot avoidance. Lateral could adjust its follow distance slightly if it detects it has placed itself in the blindspot of the neighboring vehicle.
Gotta respect this guy and this company. Bringing ML + Hardware manufacturing together in 1 company and actually being profitable is quite something. Straight up no bullshit.
That was amazing, so many smiles on everyone's faces - looks like you all really love what you do. Thanks for the insight Lex! Good luck George and the team :)
Your podcasts are great, and this was simply sublime. It would be great to get more behind the scenes perspectives of some of your interviewees. Thanks for what you do Lex.
This will go back in time as the same as MAC in a garage. Great to see how hard this really is and how valuable they are. Please SPAC so I can invest !!
Lex this is awesome. One of my favorite things you've done lately. I'd love to be working on a solution like this. Seeing these videos is like looking at videos of your favorite bands in high school... dreaming about being a rock star. :)
i remember seeing a sci-fi movie similar to this. and the plot twist near the end is where george's character finds out to be elon's son but only after elon leaves earth to a one way mission to mars..
You missed the bonus footage (now edited out) She did a Gogins chin up challenge on the rings then George had her show her Terminator arm to Lex and he finally took notice of her over the printer he was bonding with.
Comma.ai is pretty sweet. I came really close to buying one (+ a new Toyota Corolla) this past spring. Was on the fence between that and a new Tesla, leaning toward Comma.ai because of the difference in price. The deciding factor came when the dealership told me it'd void the warranty, so I'd be on my own if the vehicle had any [completely unrelated] problems - that, and I had some uncertainty about whether an aftermarket self-driving device could lead to additional liability in case of an accident. I wound up buying the Tesla instead, and I love it, but if the warranty/liability issues hadn't been there, I'd have gone with the Comma'd Toyota just to save some cash. If Comma addresses those warranty/liability concerns, it will be an easy purchase for mainstream audiences.
That's really impressive. I remember a few years ago that their office was a house in SF and now look at this. It's also really cool how such a small company can have such an amazing product that can compete with Tesla and GM.
It's such a healthy business model. Not trying to be first. Not trying to destroy the competition. Just a goal of being effective and creating something unique. Only thing left is getting out of California so more of the cost can go to hiring more people and a give them a nicer workspace with the taxes they save from moving.
The side stepping of all the red tape is pretty incredible. It seems odd they are 3D printing everything and building this all from stock phones they buy in bulk but then if you consider that all of this allows them to say it's a kit and people are just doing what they feel like doing with their cars and their phones is interesting. It suggests that before we live in a world where robotic taxi fleets zip you from place to place we will live in a world where a car someone got when they were 16 has now been upgraded to drive itself and even after being pulled over by the cops for looking at your phone while driving it's unclear to the cop or the judge or the government that some tech was being trusted to drive that car. Compare that to the regulatory nightmare everyone else deals with and it would seem there is a major legal overhead savings in the comma AI approach. But will it really provide enough of what the user wants? Well they say they are android. That they aren't iOS. And that it's an eco system that will ultimately prevail. That's a great pitch but we will have to wait and see how extensive the "let's get my car to drive itself" market ends up being. It's not zero so that's good. And that means that Comma AI is likely to succeed enough to get the the next phase where their system can begin to get more sophisticated.
Very exciting to mark the progress! Until I can afford a Tesla I have been toying with getting some recent compact that would be Comma.ai compatible. Love their enthusiasm and realistic goals 👍🏼
The set up that George has is really interesting. I can't even imagine the amount of detail and work it took to set it up. I've never heard of compute clusters before, but I'm definitely going to look into them.
@@vincentguerra8029 More power to him. California has too much red tape to start a stable business anyways. This way he can focus more on improving his product and innovating instead filling out legal forms and having clueless inspectors tell you your work doesn't fit the "standard guidlines".
This was amazing. I only recently started listening to George. An amazing fellow. I simply love the fact that he is doing this one car at a time. Told the VC's and MC's to get lost and embarked on the journey himself. Fuck ya!
You guys always kind of had some personality differences but seeing you guys hanging out and becoming friends through the years is awesome to watch . You guys are both dope really cool to see
@@tobene Yeah I wonder that as well! I'm always amazed how colossal companies seem to overlook solutions that are being worked on as we speak. It is better to have your own system, but let's be honest here none of them are ever getting near auto or open pilot. So indeed it's the when more than if! (it's probably as soon as it's too late for some of them)
Awesome stuff! Love to see how other companies are setup and operate. Would be incredible to see this for more of the other companies you get the chance to talk to.