Genius hacker opensource control software for remodeling kit that turns commercial car into "automatic driving car", anyone can download it



Create a self-driving car system in just one monthGeohot (George · Hotz), a genius hacker who made the world to call it, abandoned the development of the automatic driving car remodeling kit "Comma One" that I was developing. However, Mr. Hotz publishes information such as Comma One hardware and software which is almost completed as open source.

Commaai · GitHub
https://github.com/commaai

The flow of Mr. Hots' automatic driving car project of legendary hacker is as follows. First of all, at the end of 2015, it was revealed that only one person is developing a kit for remodeling passenger cars into automatic driving cars, succeeding the test run and eliminating the strength of the world.

Legendary hacker made his own car in just one month, already already run on public road - GIGAZINE


Mr. Hotz talked about ambition to "sell 1,000 dollar (about 110,000 yen) retrofit automation kit" for Bloomberg's interview, but steadily developed an automatic driving car remodeling kit as declared. We upgraded the release within 2016.

A legendary hacker is developing a kit that will upgrade ordinary cars to automatic driving cars at only 110,000 yen - GIGAZINE


Production of legendary hacker "Automatic Drive Carization Kit" actual machine, released as scheduled within 2016 - GIGAZINE


But led by Mr. Hotz in October 2016Comma.aiThe Ministry of Transportation Road Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), concerned about the safety of "Comma One" developed by the Ministry of Transport, sent a document requesting technical details and safety precautions to Mr. Hotz, "The safety is confirmed We strongly encourage sales of products and not using products in public roads, "he demanded postponement of sales. On the other hand, Mr. Hotz said, "I'd like to spend my life to develop great technologies, not to regulators and lawyers, it's worthless to do the authorities." , It revealed the cancellation of development of Comma One.


Venture capitalAndriessen HorowitzAs a result of receiving a large amount of funds from Tesla Motors, pulling out an automatic driving car developer Riccardo Biasini, it seemed like a sitting bouncy Comma.ai remodeling kit Comma One's unavoidable discontinuation of development, the result of genius hacker's Despite the behavior that seems to be Mr. Hotz, fans all over the world waiting for a cheap automatic driving kit have become disappointed.

After that, Mr. Hotz uploaded on 28th November 2016 on YouTube how to drive the highway 280 automatically at night by using the automatic driving car kit Comma One. By the way, in the explanation part of this movie, it is stated that "Who is thinking about 10 years to hack an automatic driving car?"

Driving up the 280 - YouTube


And on December 1, 2016 Mr. Hotz publicly released the Comma One software program which abandoned development as open source based on MIT license on GitHub. Anyone can freely browse the program and use it / remodeling.

Commaai · GitHub
https://github.com/commaai

In addition to the Comma One software, design information on the hardware part "Comma Neo" is also released.


According to the public information of Comma One, the automatic driving car remodeling kit uses OnePlus 3 as an Android terminal, and at the time of information disclosure, Acura · ILX 2016 model and Honda · Civic 2016 Touring Edition are supported. In addition, in the Civic it seems that the automatic operation mode does not work at speeds below 18 mph (about 29 kilometers) per hour due to steering firmware.

According to Mr. Hotz, the information published is an alpha version of the software, it does not guarantee performance. Although Mr. Hotz himself draws hands from the development of an automatic driving car, it seems that it can be expected that the engineer who utilized the heritage will develop a new automatic driving car technology.

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