Ex-Ford engineer builds driverless car in his garage in 100 days | Hard Reset

[@GeoFry3]

It's not technology that's holding us back. It's the lack of an empty garage.

[@GuyTakashi73]

increasingly related to decreased home ownership?

[@GeoFry3]

@@GuyTakashi73 even with. My garage is full of crap.

[@oy3ah2025]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐📈📈📈📈📈 it's upppppp

[@adloram]

🔥🔥🔥

[@바보Queen]

im not a rich millionaire with a fancy garage

[@cinematicbranding]

An incredible family with an amazing vision and work ethic. It's been inspiring to see what they've accomplished. Can't wait to see where NiFT goes from here!

[@NIFTGo]

@cinematicbranding is awesome and a huge part of our journey!

[@ExopMan]

Saying his self-driving car "works" is a little misleading. I think the past ten years have shown that it's easy to make something that works in a parking lot or is "90% good on the road" it's that last 10% or 1% of driving competency and situational awareness that makes self-driving cars so difficult.

[@NIFTGo]

@ExopMan, you are right, what we designed and built works inside of it's ODD and will not work in other ODD's or would not work as well in its current instance

[@fazeobama8872]

people dont realize big oems have been at this for YEARS with near infinite resources and they still only have like level 3 reliably

[@Vaeldarg]

@@NIFTGo I am nowhere near to being able to make use of this idea, so feel free to take it if want to and put it to good use: What about a remote-pilotable vehicle instead of A.I? Many in the job market have been seeking remote-work, not to mention those doing work as "contractors" for various on-demand food/driving services through apps. Having a human pilot these vehicles could be a lot safer (having an expanded view through cameras, from some FPV/VR headset maybe) than current unready A.I tech. Would also not have the stigma of "A.I is taking our jobs!", so seems win-win.

[@DunnickFayuro]

@@Vaeldarg Latency. That's the main hurdle here. 1 or 2 seconds delay between your steering command and the remote-driven vehicle and you're in for a disaster... We're making good progress here, but sub-100 ms latency, 100% of the time, is pretty much out of reach right now.

[@Vaeldarg]

@@DunnickFayuro It's not like all the issues are expected to be figured out from the start. Look at "self-driving" cars, yet with all their problems they're still being pursued. Because every idea has problems, it's more about which problems are the ones would rather have over the problems of an alternative idea.

[@RanmaSyaoranSaotome]

This makes me think that giant corporations and mega-landlords who are buying up vast swathes of properties and thus preventing the average person from purchasing their own home or having a garage to tinker in, are just finding yet another way to cripple the small inventor and allow patents only into the pockets of big-business shareholders.

[@MossMini]

You can invest in these Mega Landlords and take profits, like thousands of other investor. Unless you are a victim .

[@tim_dillon]

patents only benefit corporations either way patents should be capped as royalties

[@DespaceMan]

@@tim_dillon If you event something new big companies will pay you big bucks to have it or pay royalties to use it. This isn't a small backyard operation these guys have lots of capital to do these projects.

[@charleskavoukjian3441]

Like china and our farmland

[@Iamwolf134]

Although it's not necessarily the intent behind corporate shopping sprees in the property narket, that certainly is yet another consequence of unregulated corporate greed.

[@1xm_mx1]

Glad to see the spirit of invention is still alive in the US! All starting from a garage!

[@YahiyaJasem]

It’s inspiring to everyone all over the world ❤ KZbin and something we are passionate about is all what we humans need, cheers!

[@charleskavoukjian3441]

Unless you run the most successful private space company on the planet.

[@361Openwounds]

Your narration is so cozy. Feels like a much-needed hug. Love your videos

[@NIFTGo]

@freethink is awesome!

[@NickFromHardReset]

Awh! Thank you! I've been advised by our HR department that I can no longer offer real hugs to people, so voiceover hugs are the best I can do! Thank you for watching!

[@361Openwounds]

@@NickFromHardReset haha I'll take it! Seriously, you do an excellent job. Appreciate the reply!

[@Tony-op6xf]

“Rebuild the world from scratch” with the help of amazon and KZbin. 😂😂😂

[@NIFTGo]

Definitely leveraged Amazon, youtube and any other source available

[@notboringbored1718]

Don't forget access to a CNC, and Welding Equipment. You know, everyone has a backyard Industry Shed right?

[@NickFromHardReset]

One of the consistent critiques we get in making a show about "Rebuilding the world from scratch" is that NONE of the people we profile have made their invention or innovation without the multitude of advantages afforded to them by the world as we live in it today. And that's fair! But the point of talking about 'rebuilding' from scratch is more about reexamining the things in our world that we might not have looked at, good or bad. If you DID rebuild from scratch, what would you keep? What would you discard? In this episode, we zeroed in on the garage as an example of something that many people take for granted, an almost invisible piece of architecture, but it has had a huge impact on our culture. If we rebuilt our world from scratch, would we want to make sure we kept that? I hope so! I think the era of garage startups is just getting started. Thanks for watching!

[@NIFTGo]

@@NickFromHardReset We would also want to keep things like Xometry, Send-cut-send, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Amazon, UPS, Fedex, Stack Overflow, I could keep going here... These are all available in anyone's backyard as far as I know (in the US at least).

[@Tony-op6xf]

@@notboringbored1718 😂dont forget, pick up trucks to move things, and a massive budget for cameras and a filmer and editor * loll

[@gizer20]

Without trying to ruin their effort, building an autonomous car is not that hard. Building a SAFE autonomous car is the hard part. Reliability in all the conditions and Functional Safety to start and then you have the issue of industrialization the product. Not everything is building the Proof of concept.

[@NIFTGo]

@gizer20, FuSa is no joke, we designed it for a very specific ODD

[@keenang8592]

Well written, well produced. The story is the dream that’s accessible to everyone. I’m now a fan. Keep up the great work.

[@RayconGlobal]

Long live garage-core!!! Thanks for partnering with us, you're the best!! 💙🎧

[@c7iC]

HE BUILT THIS, IN A CAVE, WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!!!

[@NIFTGo]

😂😂😂

[@glorious7864]

Another problem these days are all these regulations nowadays, not like 100 years ago

[@buildacubesat]

This feels so relatable to me. I set out to build a CubeSat during the pandemic (but without any prior engineering knowledge in my case) and I'm still trucking along :) All the best to Shane and his company!

[@ZarkOner]

am I the only one that got big "titan" feels with the joystick and the diy nature of the project?

[@hiddenloaf2302]

Ex Ford Engineer: drives a GM.

[@NIFTGo]

😂 between Ford and Covid, I left Ford for another OEM role and I only ever thought about buying a Ford, so I bought a GM vehicle on the way out.

[@Zuul47]

@@NIFTGo do you prefer the GM? lol

[@NIFTGo]

@Zuul47 actually GM has some great vehicles, but it's hard to get used to after so many years in a Ford vehicle

[@learningenglish-e2z]

​@@NIFTGoIf you were to buy another vehicle perhaps in future what vehicle you'd choose?

[@DamiJegede]

The shuttle looks like a scene from the future to me. I would love to see that product come to life.

[@NIFTGo]

@DamiJegede, we are working on it we want to see the same!

[@DunnickFayuro]

@@NIFTGo I have a feeling those panels would need some reinforcments to properly protect in a collision. Transparent aluminium, maybe?

[@NIFTGo]

@DunnickFayuro This is a low-speed vehicle, but still, polycarbonate is an amazing material, look up its properties when get a chance

[@BishopErehe]

@@NIFTGo this kind of vehicle looks it can be implemented by a city where all of the specific cart have sensor to detect for collision and so fort. Imagine the space we can save than the usual road.! I want to join in that similar kind of company to make ideas to prototype. I miss my college days when we make small circuits to run a simulated train stops or a traffic light.

[@arunlenovam10arun]

1:41 I like this good actress 🎉❤😊 love you bro!

[@guguineo]

I’m watching this 15 days after Tesla literally announced its “robotaxi” . . .

[@SJ-xg1uf]

It makes you wonder though, is a driverless car more efficient than a bus?

[@lllllREDACTEDlllll]

AWESOME! It took 100 days to build a golf cart that doesn't really drive by itself and a flying motorcycle that doesn't fly...

[@Luiblonc]

What a great story! A Dad and his two sons; on the same venture is certainly a great team and will go far in the future! ❤

[@yuvrajsingh-gm6zk]

For real right, I can only wish that I could have that kinda dad!

[@DarioushAryan]

Great job man Beautiful & inspirational!

[@mrkeopele]

2 things that are as great as yours: 1. automated robotic assembly should be accompanied with automated robotic disassembly for a no waste planet, and 2. AI and robots could build anything i want, given enough time... anything!! is it exciting?? yah sure very exciting

[@ashes48]

Cool! in 2020 I was an alcoholic, I quit in 2021 and started studying on how to make my own video games.

[@kumardigvijaymishra5945]

Great ideas and equally good implementation. For drone/VTV, it's good to include some sort of emergency ejection mechanism.

[@YoniBaruch-y3m]

And DONT put the human in the plane of rotation of the propellers!!! 😢

[@trylessego]

This is every mans dream.

[@3DJapan]

The Jetson 1 is basically a drone that a pilot can ride in. It goes quite fast and seems to maneuver very well. So it definitely is possible.

[@MitchRuth]

13:34 Hey my comic books are stored securely in my workshop.

[@zacharywindover9840]

It's not a tech barrier, it's a MONEY BARRIER

[@NIFTGo]

Balance of everything, typically time, money, capability, quality, etc. Still, using the resources available to you is key. There are too many things that have not been done due to not enough money or ability or ... What can be done with what is available to you? That is the missing resource and the answer to the question.

[@1980cboy]

nope, not crazy... first shot I saw I was like... Wait! That's Hopper! :)

[@Delali]

This kinda stuff i dream of for my channel.

[@timtim2668]

Put a screen monitors on each side so each side of seats can see behind and in front. Make it Omni directional able to go in any direction. Make self electric tinting bulletproof glass.

[@Cory-om8cs]

I love what you're trying to do. (Your entire concept of garage inventing the future is inspiring) You would save a lot of weight by opening up part of the cockpit, or completely opening the pilot area. (Look at all other ultralight aircraft, and not just to lose weight either) You all described it like a flying "ATV", so you want to feel the air

[@NIFTGo]

I like the idea and we definitely need to keep weight at the forefront!

[@User-vs2wc]

I have the confirmation a garage makes thing 😂

[@sinfulhands5541]

Before the joke was made I was like, "What's Hopper doing here?"

[@cityslickersyt]

guys why would one build a car that no one can enjoy... i guess nice work that you put in but drive your cars bro!! its fun and it gets your brain going.

[@willistjohnson2543]

Lol😂How do I Fire Turtle shells Mario 😂

[@johnparr5879]

Light engine technologies will come from...... Garage design studios *

[@corpusculus]

Is this dude police officer from Stranger Things? :)

[@AlexDemaree777ShreddDredd]

He's a secret clone from the Russians lol

[@anthonyL77]

WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS

[@joereyes8835]

Very nice I can relate to that. If you look at this icon is a real aircraft with no propellers or blades neither turbine. Is an electric motor but the only difference is that this electric motor push straight forward doesn't spin like regular electric motor. It's an evtol.

[@SteveBueche1027]

I think of my garage as a man cave in the sense that anything a man wants to do is possible in this space. The world goes away and you’re left with your thoughts and imagination.

[@s3_build]

This goes hard.

[@dipeshsamrawat7957]

Appreciable❤

[@yuvrajsingh-gm6zk]

One request guys, don't let elon buy your company, and credit himself like: I'm the founder of "VTV". But in all seriousness you guess are doing a phenomenal job!

[@normandothegreat]

What is the obsession with driverless vehicles? Are humans really that incapable? 🤔

[@tilak231]

I feel that your channel is underrated! Even the promo ads are good!! Odoo and this Raycon... that made me Rethink about freethink and gonna subscribe to your channel! :D Thanks man for the quality content!!

[@markjohn5686]

that self-driving car and drone are so cool!!

[@sumeet3773]

Glad to see my love fusion 360

[@Jacobk-g7r]

1:13 not just prosper, share. Those videos and Amazon are about sharing to understand and progress.

[@Tony-op6xf]

Keep up the good work. We appreciate the exposure and inspiration nonetheless!!!

[@joemulkerins5250]

Nice project

[@AndrewMorris-wz1vq]

Awesome to see! That classic industrious spirit plus what is really trillions of just accessible capital that is open source and the creative content from the communities around them really is impossibly powerful stuff! I hope they find out about comma 3 for the self driving bit too! Maybe they can leverage even more opensource tech and leap frog to a next milestone in some of their projects!

[@EB-kw4nd]

Looks like the ‘ride share car’ from Westworld S3

[@ratherbeflying101]

Good job😊

[@Fr3ddeh]

Good on these guys for trying, but if self-driving was easy, we would have already have it... 99% of it is pretty ready, but it is the remaining 1% that is very hard and you wouldn't want to step into a car that has a 1% chance of crashing...

[@conceptrat]

Awesome family showing together that things can be done #8 wired style still. Congrats to them 🎉

[@Friday4]

Dam I got inspire by your guys work!!

[@vivekpraseed918]

They could have started with a used EV and comma(george hotz). There's tons of open source stuff, put out by almost all universities' phd departments, that work at the intersection of LLMs and robotics. Its easy to modify a car however one wants to say by equipping it with all sorts of sensors with all sorts of tools like CNC, laser cutters and whatnot. GPUs, SBCs etc are all available very cheaply. On the software side of things Linux and a lot of stuff on github can take care of it all

[@NIFTGo]

@vivekpraseed, yes there are infinitely more ways to do what we did.

[@petersilva037]

It would probably be a good idea to make the golf-cart steering sensitivity speed sensitive... the faster the wheels are turning, the lesser degree of turn you get from joystick input. would help with the twitchiness.

[@NIFTGo]

The initial drive had some control issues that have been improved for human driving but were not experienced under automation (an artifact of the Xbox signal in combinations motor control initial config and sw).

[@ghostmantagshome-er6pb]

It is an amazing era. Draw it and someone can make it happen.

[@Jonnyrockin71]

Great story, great video, inspiring to see these people get into the garage and start building. Especially considering I’m sitting here on my couch watching KZbin on a Saturday morning They should stop reinventing the autonomous problem and just deploy the Tesla FSD solution.

[@NIFTGo]

Tesla is an amazing story and FSD will come and it will change our lives

[@TJenga]

Hey nice to see Betaflight I love that software

[@trowawayacc]

Time + money + boredom = genius

[@GlennFordyce]

Hello, there is a technology that might improve your flying drone project. It is called the Supa-Stealth Pump/Fan and it is produced by New Fluid Technology on the Gold Coast, Australia.

[@Ajtech369]

As a disabled Air Force veteran in Idaho who can’t work due to spinal injuries but I still have the urge to learn more and do something however my only income is my VA disability compensation which is less than $5000 per year. So I can’t even afford to feed myself on the food stamps or the utilities for my sec 8 housing. And I want to learn more on 3D printing and making things on many different ways but I can’t. And I’m afraid that my ideas and knowledge is just getting wasted because I just stay at home doing nothing. It’s sad and I try to do what I can but it’s just getting worse since I have no income. Just a Bambu labs 3D printer and maybe $2k could help me get the tools I need to be able to at least start making things and learning more so that I can make some money and maybe get off public assistance but as of now that’s just a thought that will never happen to me.

[@Lol-h4d4q]

Now a days I am terrified of Xbox controller 😂😂😂

[@NIFTGo]

Asking for a friend, did the xbox controller cause the sub to implode?

[@Lol-h4d4q]

@@NIFTGo it is one of the hole that aligned in Swiss cheese.

[@imnotinsanebisquit]

5:15 man, what a way to call out to this generation, never being able to afford such luxury. A garage.

[@japhy6536]

Great video

[@beginnereasy]

You should drop the four unique motors on the arms for a centralized intake and pneumatics. I absolutely forbid open propellers...

[@NIFTGo]

There is a lot planned to change, the video does not share or discuss the intended internals

[@austinjohnson8695]

As a gamer...one thing concerns me...stick drift.

[@NIFTGo]

You are right, which is a reason to zero components on initialization!

[@austinjohnson8695]

@NIFTGo Makes sense. You're also using an XBox One controller. Be careful with certain brands. I don't know what it is exactly but some sort of residue on the inner board can cause the controls to act weird. Example being pushing up on the right control stick triggering input for LT. The controller will work well out of the box but over time this can get bad. I think it has to do with oxidixation, but that's a guess. Specifically in the Power A brand. I washed the board with Isopropyl and used a toothpick to clean it. It helped but didn't completely fix the problem. Definitely not something you want to have happen while running a vehicle.

[@NIFTGo]

@austinjohnson8695 good advice, we also have a deadband around zero because the stick doesn't always return to the same zero.

[@MasonAlex-f9p]

Tell him to build a self driving bus

[@ok-go7mm]

The huvering "car" looks kinda like the ghost from halo

[@salahidin]

The garage used to be called workshop

[@Shinigami_Light_Yagami]

George Hotz made a self-driving car at home almost ten years ago.

[@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958]

We should have millions of people doing this, instead of a few with five mansions and a jet with a million living in cars and tents without access to the few hundred it would take to start.

[@NIFTGo]

Democratize innovation, it's what our country is about, time to invigorate the spirit

[@Questioneverything2050]

Channels like this should be getting mr beast views.

[@RjhnlyNm]

So finally someone built all those cars from an architecture renditions for an "advanced futuristic" cities 🤣🤣🤣

[@dru4670]

😂😂😂model cars

[@latankzu1307]

yet another youtuber who makes enough to live the dream you always had. love to see it. could be you too one day

[@jeepdude7359]

I wonder if the reflection from the lights off of the plexiglass is a problem at night.

[@NIFTGo]

Yes, but it will be modified in future versions

[@jeepdude7359]

@@NIFTGo I truly respect your work and tenacity. Invite students for free labor.. oh, uh a learning opportunity. You are influencing others to start their passion in the garage with bloody knuckles and lots of trial and errors.

[@NonNoobber]

I had that idea too.

[@SophiaOkorn]

amazing editing!!!!

[@corneliusquayson]

I was literally served a drone ad at the point where you were talking about the 4D dron thingy

[@flamitaz]

I cant stop drooling over that clear garage door!!😍 Its amazing the stuff i find sexy now. My young self would have called my now self, a dork!😂

[@NickFromHardReset]

I’m right there with ya. It’s a great door.

[@got2boostit2]

Mystery solved. LoL I knew you guys were up to something. Didn't know it was this >High

[@Kube4x]

Guy literally gave birth to his company 🤣

[@CoolBreezeHeals]

There's a book called Makers - by Cory Doctorow that covers this subject about inventing stuff on one's own - that would help any viewers interested in becoming "Makers". Aloha

[@reyalicea]

Dare to fail in order to succeed.

[@bellytripper-nh8ox]

AT THE 4:29 MARK: Shane's an engineer with **1000 DECADES** of experience, **FOR ALL WE KNOW**

[@YoniBaruch-y3m]

Anyone mentioning that Udacity has an online MOOC about building your own self driving car?

[@YoniBaruch-y3m]

It’s been there about a decade by now.

[@stephencavanaugh8377]

I will never be ok with the thought of "driverless cars". I don't care what Tesla does, it's not safe. Driver education and shift driving culture to less in car distractions. We don't need mobile entertainment centers, that's what your living room is for.

[@NIFTGo]

There was a time when people thought that traveling above 45 mph was absolutely impossible and unsafe, a day when online banking was the most dangerous thing and a day when paper maps were not replaceable. Only a few short years ago.

[@nyantun5315]

@@stephencavanaugh8377 if a car with a driver hit a person driver is guilty if a robot car hit a person who’s guilty ? A. driver who pay insurance B. A dam robot C. Whoever built it D. A company that sell E. A guy who has the ball to have such an idea .

[@Reavenk]

11:46 Holy handbags, are they gonna use Betaflight for the full-scale model!? I mean, I guess why not, but I've never considered using it beyond small RC stuff. Foiging wild!

[@emptydata-xf7ps]

I don’t want to squash their dreams, but unless there’s a major breakthrough in battery technology there will not be an eVTOL that will be worth the price. You’ll have speed and minutes of flight time or an hour of flight time but no speed. Thats it. The technology in storing electricity is just not there. It’s already bad for flight, and add VTOL capabilities and you waste a lot of electricity just to take off.

[@NIFTGo]

Batt tech is changing rapidly, if it doesn't then yes it will be a short flight. Time is full of surprises.

[@emptydata-xf7ps]

@@NIFTGo It’s going to take a whole new revolutionary battery design. We’re close to the maximum energy density for lithium ion.

[@josephsmith601]

SUBSCRIBED PERIOD!!! 👍👍👍

[@crippsverse]

Covid showed what the benefits of UBI could be.

[@the-witness8811]

If someone starts producing these cars with those monstrosity of headlights blinding the F!@# out of me... There's gonna be hell to pay.

[@ygreq]

I was actually thinking all the time: Where do I know that guy from?

[@broderp]

Not super impressed. None of this is ready for wide use, the car is a box with limited capabilities. This is just some guys' weekend project. Then you put the drone thing as the thumbnail, with the caption "driverless car" very misleading.

[@iamodmk]

This video series concept is how we get to see the “aliens” lol chase your dream

[@Lawh]

Thinking about it, having a remote controlled car would be half way there. Being able to send a car back to where it came from unmanned would really be enough to for example limit the amount of cars that families need. If someone could drive to work, and then have anyone, or their spouse, drive the car back, it would be great. Legally, you would have to make sure the "pilot" is sober. I would start a "drive your car home" business.