George Hotz managed to build a Self-Driving car within the confines of his own garage

[NovusBal]

Source: http://www.eteknix.com/iphone-hacker-george-hotz-built-a-self-driving-car-in-his-garage/

 

The man responsible for the first iPhone hack is taking on the big boys from Google and Tesla with his own self-driving car… that he built in his home garage. 26-year-old George Hotz outfitted a white 2016 Acura ILX with a lidar (laser-based radar) system and a rearview-mounted camera, all routed into a Linux- powered computer system housed in the glove box, controlled via joystick, with a 21.5-inch monitor mounted on the dashboard.

 

Ok, so this is quite impressive, and I highly encourage watching the video below to get an idea of what he's done, but he has essentially managed to create a somewhat self-driving car by himself. Although understand this is far from a finished model being used in the real world, this is just something that has been shown he can make work.

 

When you take into account how much money and time mega-coorperations are putting into this, its impressive that he's managed to even get this far, atleast from my point of view.

 

Most of what is driving this is his own software, which he has programmed to "observe and learn" to drive from actual drivers, which I find to be very interesting.

 

 

Video

 

He intends to sell the entire package, the cameras and the group of software used to sellers or manufacturers to improove the vehicles.

 

Well, what do people think? Are you impressed? Think he could've done it better?

[The_Stig]

Yeah, Google needs some competition before they establish a monopoly!

~sarcasm~

 

With that being said, thats really cool and I hope it becomes commonplace sometime before I die.

[qwertywarrior]

if it was Anybody else i wouldn't believe it

but this guy .... is on a different league

[SansVarnic]

Yeah, Google needs some competition before they establish a monopoly!

~sarcasm~

 

With that being said, thats really cool and I hope it becomes commonplace sometime before I die.

 

if it was Anybody else i wouldn't believe it

but this guy .... is on a different league

 

I Agree, wholeheartedly.

[Mo_z_Art]

I bet he will get hired by google, apple or samsung or any other big car-manufacturer in the next month

Impressive work

[Chasem121]

nvm

[MageTank]

This is somewhat impressive that he built a self driving car in a garage, but Tony Stark built an Iron Man suit in a cave. This pales in comparison.

[Nowak]

inb4 hired by google

[Swndlr]

Fucking savage

[Mattr567]

Now this is cool.

[suicidalfranco]

inb4 sue cuz reasons

[Stefan1024]

Wait, stop.

A lot of people drive very bad and dangerous. The car should not have to learn from them, it is supposed to do it better.

But still an impressive achivement.

[Miguel Batista]

Wait, stop.

A lot of people drive very bad and dangerous. The car should not have to learn from them, it is supposed to do it better.

But still an impressive achivement.

It can. LiDAR is a very competent piece of tech. Now just pair it with a hogh precision guiding system and it can drive itself safely. The hard part is the software not the hardware. Now if they start using LiDAR generated maps from these cars in Eurotruck simulator 2, that would be awesome!

[The Benjamins]

Wait, stop.

A lot of people drive very bad and dangerous. The car should not have to learn from them, it is supposed to do it better.

But still an impressive achivement.

 

Well if this becomes a product most likely the tech is pre taught before its sold, and then learn more down the road. who would buy a auto pilot system that you have to teach. its like buying a teenager personal driver.

[Inkz]

Am I the only one who at first read George Hotz as Giga Hertz?

[Exotath]

This is amazing. He will do it.

[SansVarnic]

Am I the only one who at first read George Hotz as Giga Hertz?

Yes 

[PlayStation 2]

Barely a year and he beat Google at their own game

[SirNumbers]

This is fucking dope

[Sauron]

They keyword here is "somewhat".

 

99% of the research is going into ironing out the "somewhat".

[Techotic]

The amazing thing is that he did this all by himself (which also holds true with all of his past exploits: iPhone, PS3). His software consists of only 2000 lines of code (as compared to hundreds of thousands in other self-driving cars), and off-the-shelf parts (Intel NUC, USB hubs, GPS sensors, Dell touchscreen monitor, etc.), all completely funded by his winnings from hacking contests (cost: $50k which includes the car). His software is also unique, as it uses "deep learning" AI technology, it learns each time you drive - which also explains why his code his so compact.

Read the original Bloomberg Business article HERE.

[WelshDdraig]

I haven't heard about GeoHotz in a long time. If this is what he has been doing while he has been missing from hacking iphones and computers, this guy deserves to be successful. To do this on ones own in his garage, damn man. 

Don't get me wrong, I still want a Tesla, but damn, I wouldn't mind a finished product from him.

[GoldSrc]

Impressive, but I don't know how to feel about the "drive like a human" thing, most humans are idiots.

[CTR640]

Hopefully Sony won't sue him.

[DigitalHermit]

"software is programmed to observe and learn from other drivers"

So... if I take it to a drift event, will the car start going drifting on its own?