Author: Comma.ai Official News

A 100x Investment (Part 1)

comma.ai has raised $8.1 million, Zoox has raised $990 million. Cruise and Waymo have raised even more. By my priors, this bothers me. How can I claim with a straight face we are going to win self driving cars, when, all else being equal, we appear much less likely to succeed. Although I lose sleep… Continue reading A 100x Investment (Part 1)

Toyota Giraffe Configuration Fix

If you are reading this, it’s probably because you got an alert that looks like the one below. This means that your EON isn’t reading CAN data from the stock camera. Technically, this is an acceptable configuration: openpilot detects if the stock camera is disconnected and, if so, generates all the CAN messages to mock… Continue reading Toyota Giraffe Configuration Fix

Our Hardware Future

As many of you who follow us know, comma is striving to be as consumer friendly as possible. We built panda and giraffe in a different time, when ADAS technology on cars was brand new, chffr was still a product, and it was unclear what we would do to gain traction. panda and giraffe were… Continue reading Our Hardware Future

AEB: a Case Study Using comma.ai Dataset

Features, such as AEB, are meant to improve the safety of the vehicle by reducing both the occurrences and the severity of accidents. Unfortunately, they usually have a long development cycle and effectiveness that is difficult to quantify. Figure 1: Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) event present in our data set. A precise estimate of the… Continue reading AEB: a Case Study Using comma.ai Dataset

Introducing…comma prime!

Here at comma, we’ve had SIM cards in our EONs since before they were even called EONs. And they provide a couple of great benefits, so much so that we’d forget most of our users don’t have them. Today, we are changing this. We’re making it easy for all EON users to get an unlimited… Continue reading Introducing…comma prime!

comma.ai moves to San Diego

comma.ai moves to San Diego comma aiBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Mar 13 San Diego skyline. The story “Hey guys, as you know, we have been looking for a new office for quite some time now and it has been very frustrating. Rent rates keep soaring! I thought about it and why don’t we move out of Silicon Valley?”. “Hell yeah.… Continue reading comma.ai moves to San Diego

Dataset for HD maps — comma2k19

Dataset for HD maps — comma2k19 comma aiBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Dec 16 Maps are useful. Accurate maps are even more useful. Building accurate maps requires a lot of data. Mapping vehicles are expensive, EONs are not. “How can cheap EONs ever make accurate maps?”, you might be thinking. Well, let me show you something: Viewing frusta calculated with sensor… Continue reading Dataset for HD maps — comma2k19

A message from the new CEO of comma.ai

A message from the new CEO of comma.ai Earlier this week, George Hotz, founder and former CEO of comma.ai, became the Head of Research Team and promoted me, Riccardo Biasini, from VP of Quality to CEO. Before joining comma, I received my master’s degree in automotive engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2010. I… Continue reading A message from the new CEO of comma.ai

comma.ai Affiliate Program

comma.ai Affiliate Program omg it’s sales and marketing The problem with marketing The e-mails come. They promise you seven times industry metrics over average responses in your sector. They claim eyeballs in coveted demographics, valuable age ranges, and targeting beating AdWords, the Disney Channel, and Microsoft Azure. Combined for hyperlocal growth hacking. Business messaging on… Continue reading comma.ai Affiliate Program