{"id":32320,"date":"2016-11-30T17:16:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T01:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/geohots-startup-comma-ai-open-sources-its-self-driving-car-technology"},"modified":"2017-04-25T19:52:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T02:52:55","slug":"geohots-startup-comma-ai-open-sources-its-self-driving-car-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/geohots-startup-comma-ai-open-sources-its-self-driving-car-technology","title":{"rendered":"Geohot\u2019s startup Comma.ai open-sources its self-driving car technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/1u88jj3r4db2x4txp44yqfj1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/george-hotz-comma-ai-780x519.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>George \u201cGeohot\u201d Hotz is driving forward with his push to bring self-driving cars to the masses, but he\u2019s going about it a slightly unconventional way. His company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comma.ai\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Comma.ai\">Comma.ai<\/a><\/a> is brushing past some previous regulatory issues and is trying another route \u2014 open-sourcing not only its self-driving technology, but also instructions for building your very own hardware device (\u201ca robotics platform\u201d) called Comma Neo. All of this information is available today through Comma.ai\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.github.com\/commaai\">GitHub repositories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning, the company has had a goal of being the Android version of self-driving cars \u2014 it wants to empower \u201cghostriding for the masses.\u201d Earlier this year, it was approached by state and federal regulators inquiring about a product Hotz claimed wasn\u2019t even on sale yet. Fed up with the scrutiny, <a href=\"http:\/\/Comma.ai\">Comma.ai<\/a> cancelled its first product, the Comma One, and pivoted its thinking to democratizing its knowledge. So it\u2019s keeping with its promise, but has scrapped its $999 price point in favor of it being free. \u201cIf we really want to be the Android of self-driving cars, we can\u2019t be charging $999, can we?\u201d Hotz explained.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2016\/11\/30\/geohots-startup-comma-ai-open-sources-its-self-driving-car-technology\/\">http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2016\/11\/30\/geohots-startup-comma-ai-o...echnology\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George \u201cGeohot\u201d Hotz is driving forward with his push to bring self-driving cars to the masses, but he\u2019s going about it a slightly unconventional way. His company Comma.ai is brushing past some previous regulatory issues and is trying another route \u2014 open-sourcing not only its self-driving technology, but also instructions for building your very own [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32320","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\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38269,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32320\/revisions\/38269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}