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Its great that waymo has its own brand now. I really wish udacity's open self driving car takes off as well. I predict there will be a linux of self driving car
by nojvek 10y ago
Its great that waymo has its own brand now. I really wish udacity's open self driving car takes off as well. I predict there will be a linux of self driving car software/hardware kit that will be battle tested, reliable, secure and solid with contributions and test cases from all around the world.
I also really think someone should invent a solution to convert existing modern cars with brake, gas and steering from CANbus to self driving cars by installing a kit.
The current car manufacturers can simply make really good cars with cameras and sensors integrated. One can then install open software adapted for the region that is always getting updates. The test cases and lidar data is put in a giant shared repo whose ownership is the community. E.g OpenStreetMap and wikipedia.
Same software can be used for smaller robots to dispatch packages to the front door, or robotic lawn mowers, rubbish trucks, cleaning trucks e.t.c
That would be a fantastic future to be part of.
- ktta 10y agoWow, you just described everything that commaai[1] did (or tried to do). They tried the kit that can be self installed[2] but decided not to continue[3] They also have a dataset that can be downloaded by anyone[4] And they have open sourced the software on their github, [1]: http://comma.ai/ http://comma.ai/ [2]: https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/13/comma-ai-will-ship-a-999-autonomous-driving-add-on-by-the-end-of-this-year/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/13/comma-ai-will-ship-a-999-a... [3]: http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/13453344/comma-ai-self-driving-car-comma-one-kit-canceled http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/13453344/comma-ai-self-dr... [4]: http://research.comma.ai/ http://research.comma.ai/