Good idea to go with retrofitting. Not convinced a fat tablet is enough to autosteer, but we'll see...
Mmmmyeah having driven a car with "existing sensors" I'm sure as shit not giving them to a $1000 camera/computer package and letting it play in traffic. In fact, if I see that shit shipping to my neighborhood I'm writing my congressman to ban it. There's "not ready for prime time" and there's "mutherfuckers are already texting stoned and now you wanna give control of the car to a Gameboy Advance eat a dick."
He'll likely even make it user-installed, starting with Honda Acuras around SF. In his 5-minute obnoxious Silicon Valley pitch he bashed MobilEye for being afraid to innovate, but I think it's exactly "innovative" companies like his that will damage self-driving car adoption over the long run.
Tesla was almost that stupidHotz claims that Musk offered him a contract with a "multimillion-dollar bonus" if his technology outperformed systems used by Tesla, but the 26-year-old hacker says he turned down the offer because he felt, reports Vance, that "Musk kept changing the terms."
To be fair, this is geohot, the guy who first jailbroke the iPhone and the PS3 "back in the day". So he's got technical chops for sure. That said, I'm pretty sure he's been drinking too much of his own koolaid lately, so I don't know what will come of all this.
