Meet the 26-Year-Old Hacker Who Built a Self-Driving Car... in His Garage

George Hotz, the first person to hack the iPhone, says he built a self-driving car in a month. How did he do it? Bloomberg's Ashlee Vance went to Hotz's home to find out... and took his retrofitted Acura for a test-drive. (Video by David Nicholson)

[@EverythingApplePro]

Legend. Time and time again.

[@dogfreak3000]

+EverythingApplePro Aah good seeing you here!

[@NLS87]

+EverythingApplePro Go Away

[@Chef_RM]

Haha wasn't expecting to see you here! Big fan btw

[@a1vin]

EverythingApplePro d

[@a1vin]

EverythingApplePro s

[@bosnianowitzkifan41]

if (car.aboutToCrash) { car.stop() }

[@saligator8879]

xD

[@huyduong7707]

Lmaooooooooooo

[@Shinkaaaa]

it's not pwm tho xD

[@KuzkayDev]

if (car.aboutToCrash) { car.stop() ; } *

[@peteoo9467]

The complexity is in the car method “aboutToCrash()”

[@sharpvision324]

“Drive like a human, not an engineer” *drives at the speed limit slowing down all the traffic*

[@reaper2193]

lmao

[@reaper2193]

@bryan bruh it's a joke fp u gud bro?

[@Al_Gonzo]

@@reaper2193 just because something is funny does it mean its not true? Both the original comment and the comment u were answering to got a point, u got none

[@vnsteuben]

So he built car aimbot. Now he will get a letter from the government saying he is vac banned

[@drike_12]

Most surely he isn't that low to use Steam.

[@Varoid]

He probably has an antiban

[@ItsIbby]

Matthew Shubin it’s not a vac banned, it a gav banned, Government Anticheat Banned

[@jobro1957]

Hes on VACation

[@zeynand4039]

What does vac mean?

[@Lombwolf]

The fact this was made 3 years ago is amazing

[@iMidnight_]

Yh

[@Jbolo123]

not alot has changed tech wise. Not that surprising.

[@j.rjunior5584]

Really? Didn't notice

[@slage98]

Jake Barn living under a rock or something bruf, sum mode on Tesla, self driving Uber self driving google maps car and more more! The only downside is the government isn’t approving much that’s why it takes so much time to get anything out there for the consumer :/

[@Jbolo123]

@@slage98 Im talking about the tech making it possible, sir.

[@wideface]

Level 5 - no car

[@fishdishh4306]

level 6 - my ass

[@justrobi1904]

Level 7 - nothing for 20 thousand dollars

[@Angel-VTek]

@@fishdishh4306 level 5000 B.C. being driven by a dinosaur on way home

[@RajSachdeva]

it is called drone

[@inspiregrow2336]

😂😂😂

[@abc369]

I like this healthy madness in his eyes

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

+Misha latushko One itty bitty step towards insanity? Or, just enthusiasm. Kid in a candy store....a digital one.

[@HardwareAddiction]

Hotz is back baby.. I just loove this guy's attitude.

[@snitox]

+Connor Sumners Steve jobs couldn't write code, all he could do was yell at his programmers to write code for him. Not saying its a bad thing.

[@IvanPlayStation4LiFe]

+Connor Sumners But Steven Jobs did not know any programming

[@mykebulvai6627]

+SoSueMe speaking of "hacking"... steve jobs couldn't "hack" open source software to save his life. He tried once, he ended up dying instead. :)

[@mdome8584]

I couldn't agree more.

[@tonycepeda308]

This guy is an icon for us tech nerds. He will be a billionaire.

[@tylermiller8689]

Tony Cepeda dude yes!

[@harrywillisdick8660]

No he wont

[@w1z4rd9]

China Moon lmao

[@nethacker91]

He's brilliant and he's working hard to get this $1000 package out there but it doesn't necessarily mean that's it's gonna be popular. Not all billionaires are intelligent and not all broke people are stupid. It doesn't work like that.

[@eeveryone9951]

You know when you say you’re a tech nerd you are not one lol.

[@ethug6843]

Here in my garage, just made this self driving car.

[@LostieTrekieTechie]

E Thug KNAWLADGE!

[@danjones8509]

Reminds me of Apple

[@makerKID5]

He looks so different I remember from the jailbreaking video.

[@SPimentaTV]

He is realy a nerd! The keyboard is blank, with no inscriptions on the keys! 3:48

[@vintageb8]

how is that possible?

[@indersinghbeatbox]

Lol there are a few companies that sell those keyboards. The one I have is from DAS keyboard

[@sunilsumair8320]

That is nerdy but still impressive..

[@roolebo]

That’s blank (non-printed) white HHKB.

[@karlosbricks2413]

probably wore out the keys, my keyboard has most key blank at this point

[@iloveqatar]

I want to fund this guy

[@eliaspianomusic]

same!

[@PumpiPie]

i want to be that guy

[@manuzsanand]

Nigga, you broke.

[@Tobbles1]

San Francisco

[@JoseFloresEC]

Damn i thought this was a recent video. Just realized it's from 2015...so much has changed since, i wonder what he's up to now

[@harleyja]

invents transgender stimulator

[@yourdad1057]

@@harleyja look at this "pussy"

[@Alex-gw9js]

Yeah me too

[@tobejaison9781]

Please, don't be inappropriate all!

[@yourdad1057]

@@tobejaison9781 fuck up

[@XiaochuanChen]

This man is really a genius. Unfortunately, he had to abandon his research progress due to some law issue. What a pity.

[@supermelodia]

which legal issues?

[@J-wm4ss]

@@supermelodia The NHTSA was wondering why he was selling selfdriving tech when it was so unrefined. He eventually continued though, and now has done a ton of interesting things.

[@joeyknight8272]

@@J-wm4ss that's dumb

[@gitgudsec]

What are you talking about? Openpilot 2 has 1000s of daily users.

[@sonafabix]

law issue you mean greedy corporations

[@w.kamaranjoku1712]

A genius restricted by law.

[@sonafabix]

law allowed him to become a genius, pretty sure hed be dead in the wild bro....

[@louididdy]

The audio levels when talking inside the car are so amateur!

[@HunterTinsley]

+louididdy Sounded like a Charlie Brown episode...

[@SoundToxin]

+louididdy Yeah, I cranked up my headphone amp and it just resulted in barely hearing some stuff while hurting my ears with the rest of the video.

[@HoangMinhVuong]

i'm wondering what im gonna do with my life... :((

[@ichbinein123]

+Hoang Minh Vuong - Study engineering (any specialty), get a bachelor, start a company and reek in some sweet tech cash.

[@Joshualacruz]

+IchBinEin That, or you could try become Batman. He already is rich. 👍

[@cogs11]

+IchBinEin not easy. Won't happen.

[@ichbinein123]

Cogs Box Nah, i know, currently 5th semester electrical engineering student myself. It's hard as balls. But i plan on starting a firm when i get my Bachelor or Master, and with a bit of luck and a lot of work, i can retire early.

[@Zopdoz]

+Hoang Minh Vuong Fuckin' existential crisis :((

[@TheAnandRahul]

Very soon he is going to get a offer from many automobile companies to work with them in this project, but at end he will decline all of them.

[@fanbeen00]

electrek.co/2015/12/16/elon-musk-offered-a-multimillion-dollar-bonus-for-geohot-to-build-a-mobileye-crushing-autopilot-system-for-tesla/

[@TechDetour]

fanbeen00 wow..... It actually happened

[@AnythingMike]

Rahul Anand bloody hell.. how did you know that ?

[@spinLOL533]

Mr Man he hates sell outs

[@MrCmon113]

What project? There is nothing impressive in that video.

[@Parad0xical]

Genius. Keep up the good work. Humanity needs people like him. 👍

[@polandball9937]

Driving Teacher: I can teach a Llama to drive! Hacker: I can teach a car to drive.

[@dnzssrl]

Dude you let that thing go around the road with 10 hours of training data... You mad?

[@nethacker91]

I was thinking the same thing. Especially how easy it is to get even more hours. But then again, he claims to have those extra set of eyes that are simplifying the problem, and with it, the training required for the model to work safely with 2 journalists in it.

[@bobsmithy3103]

"Building really cool things that we want in the world" Yes, I agree so much with that statement.

[@JCJourney]

this guy is weird , but that is what we need. :) most companies are not about making progress, but making profit.

[@gawonii5265]

He looks like a budget Justin temberlake

[@HDitzzDH]

Walmart Justin Timberlake.

[@Afrotechmods]

4:30 Star Trek button that says ENGAGE. So epic.

[@S1nn1S]

so where do I go to invest some money into this guy and his soon to be company?

[@carterhinsley5694]

+Luis Figueroa Go to a landfill and place your money order onto the waste piles. You'll get a better return on investment.

[@S1nn1S]

You're The guy who always misses out on the next big thing lol

[@samdornan403]

Save some shares for the rest of us, will you?

[@NewManOut]

+Luis Figueroa by sending it to me.

[@carterhinsley5694]

ayy lmao

[@jeremychmelik7952]

I’m in. Strait up. If the price point for a “plug and play system” is really in the $1000.00 range that would make this tec available, affordable and a sensible decision for any driver. I can’t wait to see where the price settles.

[@edjoultz9678]

Regulations can't allow level 2 autonomous tech. It's too unreliable with its 10 hour noob human capabilities.

[@spartanstunting5247]

We need the infrastructure too

[@lildaveyy]

This dude really is a genius. He reappears like every 4-6 years.

[@damiandanev9271]

3 years later and a project shutdown... moral of the story: don't count your chickens before they hatch

[@hustlerr1337]

he got sued what you mean, he wasn't able to ride the car anymore on highway, meh

[@carlonnrivers]

hustlerr why could Tesla, but not him?

[@RyanKwon]

This guy is boss on so many levels.

[@infiltr80r]

Last part is key, it's about cool technology that helps you live, not about being some world changer guy. I can't wait until all cars are automated, much safer, less pollution and faster transport.

[@jamilashahid7767]

But can it handle scratches at a level 6 with deeper grooves with a level 7.......

[@RollingRealms_]

Me: looking trough youtube KZbin: Here is recommended video from 2015 enjoy!

[@deepeshsharma6464]

He is a great guy! We are friends from last 7years.

[@itsAphelion.]

Man I was always fascinated with what George can do, now look at him. Came a long way from the unlocking and jailbreaking scene. You deserve it brother, spread that limera1n.

[@GamerofGamesGG]

George Hotz is a genius, doesn't think about money, apart from the billionaire joke quote I guess. Though, what he speaks of is free will for technology/AI, he sounds dangerous.

[@0xbitbybit]

+Shahin Tr Yeah wait for the "killed in freak accident", or suicide news about him in the not too distant future, ie. assassinated.

[@GamerofGamesGG]

MangoMan888 ??

[@cogs11]

+Shahin Tr Oh, he knows he's going to make money. No one simply starts a business/company.

[@flightpowerjc]

Raw unmasked brilliance like this is just pure magic. Breathtaking absence of stupidity.

[@roryclear357]

very impressive but the car is only learning from his few hours of driving, Tesla and other companies have thousands of cars on the road taking in data.

[@SociedadAndroide]

This guy has an app that you can download and attach your phone in your car, then, just drive and earn comma points that maybe will help you with discounts per unit ;)

[@RAZELEO]

@@SociedadAndroide What is the app called?

[@Isaac-ev3nq]

@@RAZELEO did you end up finding the name of the app?

[@RAZELEO]

@@Isaac-ev3nq Yes I did but the app has been discontinued. It was called "chffr".

[@adamkonrad]

Inspiring to see how much one person can do these days!

[@PrateekplaysGuitars]

I don't want autonomous cars to drive like humans. I think that defeats the purpose of it. You want to them drive more safely than humans. No more cutting people off.

[@nethacker91]

It depends on how structured his model is and what he is teaching it. It's not gonna become like a human.

[@smithpatel9664]

Ok....i want to say something.... Self driving car is not just a Car that Drive itself on middle of the road. Self driving means your car can drive you to your location, park itself, pickup you from the location you want, drop you to your home, park it self on to your garage without Human interaction. Oh!!!....Common....... This guy says Companies are fool...they already made what this guy demonstrate here. This way of self driving is fairly Insecure and unsafe. If you drive your way by this guys way I'm sure that you miss your home and car drive it self till the fuel ends. Ok....so much i said here....but that's my opinion......but anyways Nice Video and Appreciate this Guy's hard work. :)

[@smithpatel9664]

renkuohai @renkuohai yes! You are right. The AI program will get exponentially better over time but in the video the guy giving information to the computer is just a video feed (colour data)and with help of a sensors he can get the obstacle data. Guy in the video develops a Tracking system that can able to track road tracks and use it as a guide Lines but this system of self driving is just like a Blind man walking with his stick where the blind man know there is an obstacle in front of him but unable to say what is it. Right!! Now... > whenever you watch field test video any other self driving car ( like the Google's) they are trying to show you how much powerful and Accurate their 3D Scan technology in Real time scanning and the computer have real data which can give enough information(like depth info, shape info, mass, Measurements etc) about any obstacles in the Road to the computer and now the AI part comes here all the information which is collected from 3d scanning and Sensors the AI (software) analyses data and take Required Action. And that the exact same thing that Human do while drive a car. Hopefully you would get it. I apologize for my English. :)

[@riteshpatel1460]

smith patel yep bro you are right Jo aa Gujarat na ahmedabad na road par chalave to bijje kyay train karvani jarur na pade

[@MrCmon113]

What he demonstates was already possible thirty years ago. And indeed it is possible in the car he is using without any modifications. So all he had to do for the video was to turn on cruise control and lane assist.

[@MrCmon113]

@waipahu >the significance of him implementing artificial intelligence here Google "deep learning library". Anyone can "implement artificial intelligence" just like anyone can swing a sword or pull the strings on a guitar. That doesn't make you a great swordsman or musician though. What do you think Google, Tesla, Facebook, Volkswagen, Volvo, Renault, etc are doing anyways? They are all of course "implementing artificial intelligence". Only that they actually innovate rather than just turning on cruise control on the highway.

[@bezzabransound]

Just dont sell it to the Google please

[@MSuss98]

I admire this guy for saying he's going to be next billionaire ceo

[@slyferxxs828]

driving on the highway vs driving downtown is a completly different level

[@jagtaphimanshu09]

This video will be archived under "legendary" status

[@samueljakobsenIBB7]

1:27 One of the cleverest things i have heard. In 10 seconds.

[@danielgoncalves4556]

Wow people like this guy is what motivates me as a programmer, i support you 100% sir

[@Godisgr8always]

"I'm a computer guy, cars are computers." 😱😱😮😮😮

[@The_Remster]

please tell me you're working for or with Tesla you're a genius

[@RichardsWorld]

Still a legend and he is only 26. Wow! California DMV got scared of this and gave him a seize and desist letter about his car on the highway.

[@DustinRodriguez1_0]

Car developed by an experienced software engineer in the environment research shows produces the best possible software? Ban it from the roads! Car developed by a company who hires the cheapest inexperienced developers they can find, stuffs them in an open floor plan office filled with constant distractions, ignore them when they say the system is not finished or needs more testing, then push it out onto the public, knowing that the company will never be punished for any flaws? Call it the next standard!

[@connormccluskey9103]

This guy is just using the cars already built in mechanics. We saw nothing of lane changing or how it works it any other conditions (raining, fog, etc.). If you think this arrogant ass knows better than hundreds at large tech companies you are being very ignorant.

[@minusCEE]

@@connormccluskey9103 agree, 10h training data on the road? Are you serious? Any Tesla or something utilizes nvidia tech can do better than that. This I'll say self lane keeping car. However, his motivation and effort to do something like this is astonishing

[@MnkyDev]

so nobody gunna talk about how this man has a keyboard with no letters

[@michaels3757]

There are plenty of people who could build an automated car, we chose not to because its incredibly dangerous. Large companies develop these things with thousands of off road hours, this guy brought it straight to the road. IMHO a jerk off with reckless disregard for public safety. Literally there are 10 year old multi rotor builders who could create this exact system.

[@carterhinsley5694]

+Michael s Geo Hotz is famous for being a shitty, unemployed, unentrepreneurial version of Steve Jobs. He simply repackages old ideas, adds nothing interesting to them, makes them sound like unprecedented strokes of genius to the tech-illiterate, then they all lap up his shit and suddenly he's all over Reddit and Y Combinator, and Bloomberg Business does a spot on him. Oh, and then Tesla offers him a multi-million-dollar bonus just to sign on to their team, and he refuses. I feel that he may possess a few too many chromosomes, which would explain his marketing prodigiousness.

[@michaels3757]

Carter Hinsley LOL thanks for the laugh buddy, I feel that way about Musk too.

[@carterhinsley5694]

Michael s What way specifically? That he has a genetic deformity? Musk has demonstrated some level of social ineptitude, oft described by his colleagues as probably lying somewhere on the Aspergers spectrum. You do realize that Musk is extremely assertive, strongly opposing bureaucratism due to his impatience and has at least held some role in revolutionizing 4 different industries (sustainable energy, online banking, electric/autonomous privatized highway transportation with a cars-as-software-platform business model, and superorbital space launches), whether as an investor, academic researcher, engineer, or business magnate, correct? None of those things have been done by Steve Jobs nor Geo Hotz.

[@michaels3757]

There is no denying musk's potency as a creative visionary. I simply find his approach when bringing his ideas to fruition to be deplorable. Imagine being one of his engineers on Space-X, he wants to penetrate the private space sector in the infancy of private space travel. However instead of developing a current generation rocket to start, he is obsessed with simultaneously launching on a next-generation rocket platform. The man is obsessed with his visions to the point that it gets in the way of development. I imagine he surrounds himself with Yes men. Many people are impressed with the recent landing, however they were effectively beaten by Bezos, not to mention the fact that they have had multiple catastrophic failures on landing in the last attempts. I simply don't consider one out of three odds a success. Maybe when they demonstrate repeatable landings, I will take it back. Now on the subject of tesla's autonomous systems, it is hardly a novel idea from the guy, Look into VAG's (volkswagen auto group) development of autonomous systems. They have comparable systems to those recently released through tesla's firmware update, and they where released in some parts of europe before Tesla's release. The hardware has been in most audi's for a couple of years already. Besides, If you look at the IP portfolios of all the players in the autonomous industry, tesla is a featherweight compared to Apple and Google. But thats ok, I will be short selling the hell out of TSLA when the other players start making their moves. At the end of the day the man is a very good hype artist. Which gets people a long way in this world these days (as Hotz has demonstrated) But in the long game I think things will show their true nature. (PS) If you are interested in rocket systems, I highly suggest checking out Copenhagen Suborbitals - OPEN SOURCE

[@mechanoid2k]

+Carter Hinsley I patiently await the self driving Carter Hinsley-mobile.

[@ipatfly]

Love his keyboard without any letters on it.

[@TravisHeinze]

I still don't believe he did much more beyond an advanced cruise control system. They didn't even challenge the car in any video, just talked about how crazy it is. Would anyone like to buy an awesome vacuum? It's great.

[@jonnda]

For someone that isn't a car guy, he knew enough to pick an Acura that has all the needed hardware because of lane keeping features and cruse control.

[@bryanswaggbeast8194]

That's awesome!!! So what about night vision camera for night?

[@goldaria9228]

Someone needs to make a night vision enabled windshield so we don't have to use blinding headlights any more.

[@brooklynbrand6982]

Now this is my definition of a smart guy..

[@TruettD]

I want to see him pulled over and see the polices reaction

[@смиренный-х2б]

With how cocky he is, he'd end up getting tazed on the side of the road. Which I wouldn't mind watching.

[@undefinedchannel9916]

@@смиренный-х2б stfu, can you build an autonomous driving car?

[@TruettD]

Jose Martinez I was saying I think it be funny to see the police reaction

[@Ryrynz2000]

Go dude, make it happen. The world needs this.

[@yez06]

So your the guy who made it where I can’t login into my ps3

[@tksaint8429]

Frozen Sauce he meant he was the first to jailbreak it not to where he made the servers go down that a whole different thing

[@ronidude]

this was basicaly 5 years ago... were is he now ... poor lad :(

[@saketshetty]

what do you mean he launched his product 2 days ago dude

[@mayyouprosper8140]

Dnt give up my friend. We need more people like you in this world.Good luck.✌

[@Max-fu4by]

He built this in a garage! With a bunch of scraps! (Iron man reference btw)

[@KasaBlanca007]

He's so concise. So clear.

[@Hry3]

if your friends car drives off a cliff are you driving off too?

[@Coolgiy67]

Lmao

[@johnscott7169]

This guy is awesome! Keep up the good work man!!

[@r.p.8133]

Why is this guy not in the management of an big Tech-Comp?!?! Can't believe how smart he is

[@paraiso1972]

What happened to this? 2019 asking.

[@hereitis4584]

Mike Brouwer xd

[@orlandoperera1403]

Oh fuck, it's made in 2015

[@ThrillDrift]

He made it

[@zpicy]

He and Elon Musk worked out a 12 million dollar deal for him to rebuild the self-driving technology that Tesla uses. When he started making it, he was told by the NHTSA that it wasn't street legal, and Hotz canceled the project a year after this video was made. They open-sourced the code used to make the car work for research purposes. Nowadays they're making other similar projects and basically beating around the bush until they can actually work out a way to make a legal self-driving car.

[@theconqueror1111]

He must be really well versed in machine learning and artificial intelligence in images. That is pretty much all this is, but then again, that is very impressive. The problem with his system is that it will completely fail in snow, ice, rain, fog, and night. There is a reason why you need a vast array of sophisticated and expensive sensors. Regular cameras don't cut it. Don't know what lidar he is using. The difference between ideal demos and ideal conditions, to the reality of horrible driving conditions and weather is ridiculously huge, you need a massive team of talented people to do that. It's probably substantially improved by now however, but I don't see him working on it at all.

[@kaito2005]

Also, start working on PS4 and the Xbox1 damit!!

[@aliabbas8632]

He's the one who hacked PSN in 2011. But he's anonymous now.

[@Kenbomp]

Agree better car experience rather than full auto drive is the way. Measurable safety improvement, preventable deaths and paralysis form accidents

[@WhenWonderWanders]

Everyone is waiting for permission to do things. But the reality and magnificence of our modern times is that you can just bypass all that AND GO BUILD THINGS. If you think it has value (which is not rocket surgery) then go build it! It might takes years to learn the skills but what's stopping you? This guy is building this from his garage, I'm building my software product from coffee shops and my bedroom. These times we live in are amazing.

[@william_8844]

Now I see why he has a loyal following on the tube. Cool dude. This makes Elons work on Tesla look like nothing, a blip. I mean he's one guy doing what Elon did with a team

[@TherealRaust]

Can't wait to see how self driving cars do in winter conditions.

[@MrCmon113]

Or anything else than going straight on the highway...

[@dxsphoria]

They were saying that Tesla's were clunky, but the last time I checked, Tesla's didn't have tons of loose wires and a weird looking camera on the roof.

[@Searchiing]

I really respect him for doing it. I also think many of the company's really done a poor job but you bro .... Outstanding. The way you are teaching that car is amazing if i wanted a self driving car i would really like for it to be driving like me so teaching it to drive ... wow bro

[@Brainles5]

Geohot!! My man!

[@markblazedev]

I felt the music was a little too loud. It distracted me during their conversation. However, the content is great. Thank you.

[@mavic5149]

its 2019 where is that autopilot now ?

[@pratishu5156]

it got shut down 3 yrs later......reason: not safe(National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration.)

[@tipoomaster]

At this stage in technology, I think I'd be more interested in something like this serving as a failsafe for me. If I'm going to do something that will likely cause an accident, prevent that, rather than trying to go for full self driving right away.

[@diegocanizales4720]

Man geohotz is crazy! I saw one of his videos on twich doing a sort of a space recognition program using a video from the Internet with python. I don't believe that he has taken it this far! Kudos on the attitude geohotz!

[@MagickPizza]

Make it electric tho and then we can talk

[@drpepper684]

“Cars today use clunky radars and sensors.” And then they show the model s. What??? Tesla uses 8 cameras plus radars that YOU CANT EVEN SEE! Also, they say you want the car to drive like a human. No you don’t! Humans get in accidents every day. Why would you want that?

[@user-cj6xv3ed4m]

3:12 "Telsa" lmao

5:31 that feeling that everything is fine :)

[@carlosmalave540]

Investors, look no further. You're looking at money here. Hotz has great potential for successful business of his like. No investor will regret it.

[@RobinsM]

+Carlos Malave I'm an investor and i can tell you that he doesn't. He's a smart and talented individual just doesn't have the business mind set and drive. Its the same situation as a lot of people who work in silicon valley they are some of the best minds and make amazing things, but they can not run a business. The reason why apple did so well was because of Steve jobs and Steve Wozniak who was behind most of the tech. Wozniak probably would have been lost building cool parts and hardware but it really takes someone with a different mind set to run a business and have the hustle jobs had.

[@carlosmalave540]

Ruben I believe you may have a valid point. However, it hard to tell if that's the case here. I understand he may be a genius in hardware and software computing but who knows this could be a similar case as in the founder of Facebook. Facebook ' s founder knows about code etc. and yet knew something in running a potential successful social media business.

[@HardwareAddiction]

+Carlos Malave I don't think Mark Z. had business knowledge. If it was anything like the movie portrayed, which in this case I believe it was, it is Sean P., who already had experience and a business mindset, to hook Mark with the right people to lead FB business-wise.

[@DodgyBrothersEngineering]

Inclined to agree with Ruben, George Hotz doesn't have great investor potential because he isn't greed / profit focused, which severely limits the pool of investors to people like Richard Branson and others like him who balance the well being of the populus with profit. Make no mistake all investors want to make profit, but some are willing to make less if there's a clear benefit to the masses. Whereas unfortunately the bulk of the investor pool just want profit, and couldn't care less about the little people as long as they get rich. Sad, but that is the world we live in. I personally wish him well in bringing affordable self driving to the masses.

[@MrCmon113]

How to start a successful business: Download some machine learning library. Call media outlet with naive bullshit reporters. Done.

[@manojuppala3941]

This guy has more balls than a gumball machine.

[@FaisalR]

he is a real hacker (respect)

[@jmzhang34]

Just realized the video was in 2015, when everyone talks about self-driving car, does the bubble still exist now?

[@yarrrJake]

I was hoping the car would drive to his garage and park itself. I was also hoping to see some redundant systems and multiple types of input devices. Cameras are great, but I want to see these systems much, much safer than humans. We need bigger steps to make this implementable anytime soon. I want to see a car avoid the mistakes of a human driver. I want to see it drive on non traditional or under construction roads. In heavy snow, on ice, during storms. Cheap is great, but this needs to be absolutely perfect first. We don't need human behavior modeling, we need physics engines that will know EXACTLY what will happen when the wheels hit a patch of ice, including how to correct. I'll be honest and say I don't think a genius 26 year old coder can accomplish what needs to be done alone. I'll put my futuristic hopes in the hands of Tesla or Ford unless George gets a team to work with and some kind of an investment.

[@NitWomba]

+Jacob Adler There's only so much one single guy can do in two years, no matter how brilliant.

[@yarrrJake]

+NitWomba Agreed! That's why I think this brilliance would be better applied in a group.

[@yarrrJake]

+Amr Tawakol Haha. Yeah, I only said Ford because of the available funds. They have the money to buy talent.

[@jujuchvz01]

yes i agree

[@Friek555]

That approach is never going to get _better_ than a human though

[@richardisdorky7411]

Lcars on your interface. NERD. In the best way.

[@lloydgrubham6369]

+Richard isdorky "Engage" (/\)

[@richardisdorky7411]

Lloyd Grubham Make it so.

[@Lucuskane]

+Richard isdorky Star Trek influence never fails to motivate nerds

[@richardisdorky7411]

Lucus Kane Agreed. Love the avatar. That's O'Neill with two L's.

[@Lucuskane]

***** Indeed! Chevron 1...engage!

[@philiq18]

Look mom! No hands!! - that was great. I'll be watching to see where he takes this. Literally.

[@vladusa]

Ashlee Vance was the interviewer. If you don't know, he made a book on Elon Musk. Does this mean something for mankind? Two futurists?

[@richardwalker3760]

Woo hoo ... he got a car to stay in its lane ... For the record, when I took machine learning, the section on DNN's described how they had been shown to be extremely effective steering and controlling a car ... this book was written in the early 90's. This guy has no idea how much more work he's got ahead of him. Highway driving on a sunny day with light traffic is not the challenging part.

[@richardwalker3760]

+Connor Sumners "He's not using LIDAR (besides for training)" That statement tells me that you probably have no idea what "training" refers to when talking about neural networks. But as gotstahavesoul suggested, I won't bother. This guy doesn't know what he doesn't know (and for that matter, neither do you).

[@richardwalker3760]

Connor Sumners Pretentious? Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black. Training data is used to train a DNN by using back propagation to adjust the weights throughout the graph. A DNN trained on LIDAR data (or some nitpicking derivative thereof) will work on LIDAR data (or the same derivative thereof). Enjoy your hobby projects. I get paid to do this sh**.

[@richardwalker3760]

Connor Sumners Zzzzzz....

[@airrodgers7277]

+Richard Walker lol no he didn't the acura can doit of showroom its call lane keep assist... I be impress if he could do that with a FORD...

[@richardwalker3760]

Connor Sumners Hmmm ... A quick search revealed almost 3000 people on LinkedIn with my exact name. I'm impressed you checked them all. You are nothing but a rude person on the internet, and you're not worth arguing with. (BTW, a search on "Connor Sumners" revealed an account on Linked In with 0 connections. Is that a coincidence? Or are you just throwing stones in a glass house?)

[@tobychow4761]

He explains his ideas so clearly wow

[@OtaconAlonsus]

and so SKYNET begins!

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

+LKA OtaconAlonsus It's real.

[@suhugo9546]

Modern day genius! And he's very articulate. makes us regular folks understand what he's actually saying. #carsarecomputers

[@doodelay]

It's official, engineers are the new academic legends of the future. Scientists must finally share the space.