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veen  ·  2987 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: George Hotz will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year

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.





kleinbl00  ·  2987 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What will happen is he'll get a lot of press, he'll be a brash asshole, and a VC will give him a billion dollars for his company.

snoodog  ·  2987 days ago  ·  link  ·  

VC's arent that stupid but they might give him a couple mil in hopes that he can continue down the path and they can get 1bil wallstreet valuation and sell to a greater fool.

veen  ·  2987 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Tesla was almost that stupid

    Hotz 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."
snoodog  ·  2987 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If his system even worked at an acceptable level they would have probably paid him millions. I just doubt it did/does and so hes probably making shit up because it sounds cool. Are you sure hes not the same guy that was behind no mans sky.

kleinbl00  ·  2986 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Speaking as someone with easily 60 hours into NMS, leave britney alone.