{"id":20029,"date":"2015-12-16T08:47:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/first-iphone-hacker-built-a-self-driving-car-with-linux"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:15:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:15:46","slug":"first-iphone-hacker-built-a-self-driving-car-with-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/first-iphone-hacker-built-a-self-driving-car-with-linux","title":{"rendered":"First iPhone hacker built a self-driving car with Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KTrgRYa2wbI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wait, what? You might be asking yourself what inspired a hacker by the name of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/playstation-3-hacker-george-hotz-donates-10k-to-eff-mocks-sony-in-process-18146702\/\" target=\"_blank\">George Hotz<\/a> to build his own self-driving car. That\u2019s what we wanted to know, too. It would seem that Hotz decided to kick out a self-driving car using a 2016 Acura ILX in \u201cabout a month.\u201d He\u2019s using Ubuntu Linux as his operating system and has an absurdly massive 21.5-inch display sitting in the middle. A flight navigator joystick rests between the front two seats which, when triggered, engages a fully operational self-driving vehicle system.<\/p>\n<p>Hots spoke with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2015-george-hotz-self-driving-car\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a> earlier this year for a report this week, showing reporters what his vehicle can do out on the highway back a few days before Thanksgiving. The vehicle is nowhere near a production-level sort of setup, looking more like Hotz ripped the cords out of several machines and bashed them together inside his vehicle \u2014 but it works. It all works.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t touch any buttons, or we\u2019ll die,\u201d said Hotz to his guests before they hit the road. Watch the video below to see what\u2019s going on:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/first-iphone-hacker-built-a-self-driving-car-with-linux-16418753\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait, what? You might be asking yourself what inspired a hacker by the name of George Hotz to build his own self-driving car. That\u2019s what we wanted to know, too. It would seem that Hotz decided to kick out a self-driving car using a 2016 Acura ILX in \u201cabout a month.\u201d He\u2019s using Ubuntu Linux [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63467,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20029\/revisions\/63467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}