<story><title>Comma.ai launches an $88 universal car interface called Panda</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/07/comma-ai-launches-an-88-universal-car-interface-called-panda/?ncid=mobilenavtrend</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephpmay</author><text>Hotz is quoted as saying in the article, &amp;quot;there are only three real competitors: Waymo, Tesla and us.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s total bullshit. There are so many companies seriously working on autonomous vehicles, such as GM Cruise, Auroa Innovation, Drive.ai, Zoox, Nuro.ai, nuTonomy, Varden Labs, AImotive, Ford, and Nvidia&lt;p&gt;Edit, because George is on here: George, I want to like you, because I think your tech is really good (the street image segmentation from RGB images is seriously impressive- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;commacoloring.herokuapp.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;commacoloring.herokuapp.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) and I think your business model of offering cheap devices and free services to crowd-source data, along with the comma points to incentivize users could give you a big competitive advantage. But the hyperbole makes it difficult to take you seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>This is the guy who was supposedly just a few weeks away from shipping a bolt-on smart cruise control module, then immediately canceled the entire thing when the NHTSA asked him some questions about its safety. He seems pretty sharp when it comes to technology, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure if he&amp;#x27;s prepared to make actual products sold to regular people.</text></comment>
<story><title>Comma.ai launches an $88 universal car interface called Panda</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/07/comma-ai-launches-an-88-universal-car-interface-called-panda/?ncid=mobilenavtrend</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephpmay</author><text>Hotz is quoted as saying in the article, &amp;quot;there are only three real competitors: Waymo, Tesla and us.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s total bullshit. There are so many companies seriously working on autonomous vehicles, such as GM Cruise, Auroa Innovation, Drive.ai, Zoox, Nuro.ai, nuTonomy, Varden Labs, AImotive, Ford, and Nvidia&lt;p&gt;Edit, because George is on here: George, I want to like you, because I think your tech is really good (the street image segmentation from RGB images is seriously impressive- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;commacoloring.herokuapp.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;commacoloring.herokuapp.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) and I think your business model of offering cheap devices and free services to crowd-source data, along with the comma points to incentivize users could give you a big competitive advantage. But the hyperbole makes it difficult to take you seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frebord</author><text>There is a TWIST episode with this guy on it, and he comes of as a massively arrogant prick. The dude who created the first iPhone jailbreak in his teens and got famous at it.</text></comment>