George Hotz - Comma.ai The Future of Autonomy: 

"The majority of the money is going into Wall St and Ads…" so true... why is Elon building 3 of the world's favourite companies? George is really Elon's closet competition.

I love crazy dudes like this. Go George go!

Love this guy, brilliant, focused, honest, no bullshit.

George’s joke about V2V was hilarious 😂

Man I love the brutal honesty of this guy, he’s definitely on the path to greatness.

Y'all got George hotz on here good job

Loved the high frequency transmitter part, haha :)

That part about break lights was brilliant

Smart guy, need more George's

My favorite interview you guys have done so far on all of your podcasts! Thanks! ❤️George!!

George Hotz is awesome. I don't agree with 100% of his predictions, but his speech is densely packed with interesting statements, and when he talks, I listen.

George is so real and down to earth, I love it!

I follow George since the iPhone unlock, this guy is incredible talented. He follows his guts, not the hype. Great talk.

He's crazy enough to make it work.

More George Hotz interviews!

I’d argue he represents the better part of capitalism. i.e., innovation, healthy competition, and non of those greed

i don't get the mapping complaint, mobileye only takes 10KB of data for 1KM of road for all needed FSD features, you can fit map of entire planet's roads in 1TB. Without mapping the car will drive like a driver that has never driven on that road, all the time, even if the SW has driven that stretch millions of times, why leave that advantage on the table?

Like this guy's approach. Seems like his vision of the future is more spot on. Agree with what he said about Level 2. What company really want's the liability of level 3-5. He seems a little crazy but maybe a crazy genius. Have to look for more on George. I though NYK Autonomous Future was a little too Utopian but they live near Boston. I would love an EV and Tesla has helped us get closer but George is right that I think EV's have a way to go (power grid, battery constraints, etc.) Just went on a road trip that took me though rural Nebraska and had I been in the highest range tesla not sure I would have made it. I may could have taken a different route but I only saw small gas stations for 400+miles. Best I could have done was plug into a 110 outlet for hours.

I never get tired of listening to George! Thanks, guys!

27:38 got them 😂😂😂

George is so amazing. Brutal honesty, clarity of thought, intellect.

What are the odds of Andrej and George having a power lunch together? Elon, please make this happen!

I hope George Hotz's has a long well funded fruitful life.

Great interview. George is just awesome. Innovation.

You two are great hosts! I've watched a few pods with George and you two have a great way of playing off his manic personality

Thank you for making it open source and thank you for writing it in C++. Like a breath of fresh air. Off to take a peek...

I've ridden motorbikes on race tracks at 150mph, and I definitely used both of my eyes :-) And I'm trying to brake from 150mph down to 70mph, and get my turning point correct, so I need distance points, etc, as well as peripheral so I can look past where I am and allow peripheral to kerb exit. Speeds above can cause headshaking, which shakes the vision. That's really difficult.

George is not doing good robotaxi math. 1.4 billion cars on the world's roads. Assume 10k miles per car and 80% of all cars are replaced with robotaxi use - for economic reasons. 1,400,000,000,000 World cars 80% Percent move to robos 1,120,000,000,000 Replaceable cars 10,000 Average miles per year per car 11,200,000,000,000,000 Billable miles Assume rates need to drop below $0.50/mile to pull riders out of private cars and Tesla's

1 camera systems have been involved in fatal collisions involving cruiser motorcycles. These are motorcycles that are low down, with pairs of red lights close together, low down. At night time they can look like a car in the distance, but they are actually a lot closer. Teslas have a number of these fatal collisions in the media. Would stereoscopic cameras help with this?

buy water buy sodas refill empty bottles with water take complete control of your water needs now. then your foods then transportation needs make your own on your own. recycle your plastics find new useful things never burn or put in garbage don't give others future problems. make your own electricity needs. make your own power packs, etc.

MIT licensing doesn't refer to the university

I'm a Comma ia user and are still amazed at how chilled the drive is ..Brillaint George

This is a nicer community. Unlike Dave Lee's toxic community (die-hard Tesla supporters), this community is open-minded to amazing people and ideas.

He's the ultimate personification of the *American Way!!* A modern day Cowboy! *Brash smart and a 'Can Do Attitude'.*

One of the best interviews of Geo! Great chemistry! Ask Geo about the Boring Co. as it relates to self driving levels. Bring him back on soon! Interview him again in a few months etc.

George Hotz brings me back to ps3/psp days of hacking haha I remember this dude who would jailbreak every iPhone and then he came to the gaming scene I think after Sony removed Linux from ps3. Always thought he was impressive. It was years ago that I saw him demo self driving using an old android phone. Don't sleep on this dude. He's been a believer in vision based driving for a long time.

This was a fantastic interview. Great tech info and he had me cracking up. Thanks for making my day.

Hands free driving is superior to the Tesla model. Our minds prefer to be in monitoring mode or driving mode. With hands on the wheel, the Tesla way, it's difficult to fully be in monitoring mode.

George is a good protagonist but wishes he were Elon Musk wrt to fame, respect, oracle.... never happen. Yet, he is very much worth listening but deciphering signal from noise is tricky given his personality traits. I doubt he even knows his biases and fallacies. Go is “simple” or something is just nuts.

Very good questions, awesome interview!

Great interview, love the bit about the different levels of autonomy and who is liable. I cant imagine any company ever taking on the liability of any and every crash in their car claiming L5 autonomy.

Amazing interview! It seems like going with a vision based autonomous driving system was the correct decision. Great work guys, keep it up!

I’m gonna solve it and give it for free. What a great guy!

I’ve always loved and appreciated how George Hotz thinks ever since his very early days as a teen when he made his video on jailbreaking the iPhone in 2007

Good respond to those who asking abt more cameras on Comma 2! And the example with Boeing!! Level-2 4evahh!!!!

The breaklights joke was 🤦‍♀️

This is the kind of conversation that you want to look back at in the future to see how it all unfolded Thanks for moving my understanding of AI driving forward guys

32:00 EPIC

I can see why the MBA 's wouldn't like him

love this guys' passion - great interview, it's a great product - tried it myself. Definitely would like to test it on a newer car with more steering wheel torque

I love the smugness every time he takes a jab a wamo . classic

george is the shit ! i love his crazy coding streams. he is genius

Have followed GHotz for years, one of the best engineers in Silicon Valley. Brilliant

Going forward I will refer to brake lights only as half-petahertz wireless radio transmitters.

George Hotz is awesome. You can see how his synapses go mayhem inside his head

Like a breath of fresh air! Respect!

I Like this guy. GH, you rock! You have a realistic take on our society. Great general knowledge and well rounded! (Boomer envy!)

This was killer fun and I even turned my playback down to 1.25x from 2x nice job!

You have to watch Hotz interviewed by Lex Friedman it's a real insight into Hotz mind and his depth of vision.. I can't wait to invest in Coma.Ai..... great interview and Hotz is so black and white, instant yes no answers.. a must watch...

I love this guy and people like him. I now want to dive deep into ML! However, I wonder how he still has a negative attitude about EVs - I guess he spends his time working on actually solving hard problems rather than keeping up with developments in the energy sector and lifecycle analyses. Still, I'm not worried - that's a world problem that's already gained enough momentum to complete.

This guy can deliver a tragic news to me and I'll still get excited.

best summary of the 737 max ive seen

I'm pretty sure my EV is already nuclear powered since they can't really turn nuclear powerplants off and I charge in the middle of the night. But it's unfortunate to hear him make the same dumb "coal powered EV" argument.

Excellent interview with George! The Comma.ai mission statement, "Solve self-driving cars while shipping intermediaries" is a notable strategy as compared with many other companies.

Two eyes is definitely more a redundancy problem.

Don't make him angry #incrediblehulk Wanted :for Honda city compatible self driving gadget YOM 2008

George is ridiculously brilliant

17:54 all copycats in China taking notes already :D

Interesting guy. Has some truly good insights in some areas. In the end, however, there are a lot of very important factors being ignored by the "early adopter," technocratic mentality. There are reasons why the OEM's will not disappear anytime soon. One of them is POLITICAL CORRUPTION. The reason that wasteful and overpriced ICE cars have dominated for so long is the power of the oil companies to influence geopolitics. If the "power of the 99%" truly determined the course of the world's people and technologies, then what the "1%" does wouldn't matter. However, it is the "1%" that control the world, and that isn't likely to change anytime soon. Bring on the hate now.

Toyota locked down the ECU on 2 of their top selling cars, Comma doesn't work on these cars. It would be very easy for all the manufactures to lock down their ECU's. There is a new car every year, IMO it would impossible to crack the ECU's on every brand of car, every year. That being said, I love my openpilot, it is the sole reason I picked up a 2021 Rav4 instead of a Honda CRV.

This is my favorite interview of all time. This guy is so smart and I agree with everything he's said. Love the Boeing example. Intellectual glee :)

I wonder why this guy doesn't think Tesla doesn't have plans to license full self-driving to other car manufacturers...

I worked on Self driving project in my master's degree. RADAR is a nightmare to handle along with camera. You have to calibrate every time, the points triangulation takes a large amount of processing power. Just run with camera and choose the better image processing algorithm. Just brace for training your models for 3-4 hours

I suggest you both sell all your Tesla and give it to this guy and Nikola. This will never happen. This guy hasn’t held down a job for a year let alone 10yrs of intense worked needed. He is another PT Barnum. Smart, articulate and good hacker, yes. Product, team , enterprise builder - never. I am betting he will walk away, denegrade other and declare victory. Be very careful with his BS. It is so simple, I solved it myself ... while Elon is building the worlds fastest chips and supercomputers to solve effectively and efficiently. These last two words are pragmatic engineering.

49:00 Just remove it. With the internet it's not necessary. Something like Khan academy, which is free, is already way better. Save that money and let parents and the children have independent free education. Maybe check whether they're learning some minimums or have some reduced educative system, but mainly remove it. More than 6 years of forced education is too much in my opinion. Something important would be to remove exams, and replace them with challenges that they can try again and again. You pass the knowledge block when you pass all the challenges. Infinite attempts. And projects for socializing and trying more complex problems.

How do I get this show as a podcast? Looked all around.. turns out "Disruptive Investing" and "Now you Know" are very common names.

i can tell those two Tesla fanboys are both wondering, is this Comma.ai bad news for our truck load of Tesla shares???? Answer: not best news !!! but after Hotz has hired a few dozen best of breed AI engineers and given them lots of stock options. Then Hotz will licence his technology to large car manufacturers...

Stereo vision can use any sensor displacement. It should be adapted to purpose. The earth is mapped using stereo photography capture by drones or planes or satellites.

I could listen to Hotz all day;

By far the best part of the video "that's the Joke of V2V" @27:35. If someone ever kept a straight face when they were telling a joke, so great! lol.

Loved the talk, great insights

I think he is getting the electric car thing wrong (e.g. by falling for the old "we need centralized power plants, and we will replace coal plants by atomic or fusion, instead by decentralized solar and wind"- idea), but other than that he has some good points.

17:25 I disagree. Watch a person hover 3 below the speed limit, drive on the shoulder, then fail to signal at a stop light... those things go together so often

Comm.ai allows you to lane change due to a free update Tesla. PAY ME $10,000 to change lanes

Great content, thanks for this information. If you are searching for high-tech video I invite you on our channel

Could those commenters in the know flesh out the idea of having dealers install comma instead of oems? Is this a current opportunity that will last maybe 3-5 years?

If anyone can beat Elon, it may be this guy. I thanks him since the iPhone 2G unlock days.

Please consider an ICO for further funding, I want to all in on $COMMA and 1000x in 5 years

self driving cars using cellphone chips and a single camera are going to piss in the pool for SD cultural acceptance. nerdy hobbies can be hazardous to social progress. Hackers will also probably lose some rights to modify their cars.

Chinese cooked your but better shows left and right signals..and when someone's coming up along side of you..another guys got one out there..not hooked up like yours

George forgets he is getting old. The more his estiimayes sounds like Elon, the less respect I have for him.

Rodney McKay's (stargate atlantis) younger brother 😝😝

53:00 Compared to the general public, George is really bright. Even compared to his parents he is bright. But I guarantee you right now there is a 12 year old looking at his GitHub daily and monitoring what he's changed.

15-16k Corolla. 30% y/y used cars COVID inflation says hello!

love George. interesting take on capturing the low end market. however if Tesla robotaxis become a thing, there may be no low end car market left. we shall see.

The reason for V2V is to track cars. This is like cars with cameras and the ones that talk back home. Even if your car doesn't have it, all the other cars with cameras can see you and report.

This was a very entertaining interview, I don't usually watch these sorts of things all the way to the end but in this case it was quite interesting, great job on the questions too, lots of things were asked that I wanted to know about.

Every 16 year old student should listen to this interview--it's rare to see this breadth of understanding.

Great Episode .... Thank you for creating this new channel !!!

We all saw this coming but it is a lot harder to make a profit in anything "open source" and your upside is limited. It's too easy to compete.