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Are you sure about that? What about "non-serious" companies? Various fly-by-night self-driving startups? Fly-by-night self-driving startups will at some point
by TomVDB 7y ago
Are you sure about that? What about "non-serious" companies? Various fly-by-night self-driving startups?
Fly-by-night self-driving startups will at some point run into issues with the NHTSA. George Hotz self-driving car project was shut down as soon as he announced that he'd start selling some prototype.
States require permits just to be allowed to test self-driving prototypes on the open road. I don't know what the requirements are, but they're probably subject to some kind of review that's more than just filling in a form.
- garaetjjte 7y agoIt doesn't look like it was shut down? http://comma.ai http://comma.ai
- Mathnerd314 7y ago> In the days that followed, Hotz abandoned his plans to sell Comma One directly. Instead, he embarked on a regulatory workaround: this current path of selling just the hardware and open-sourcing the code behind it, meaning it is available for free. He says often, “We are not selling a consumer product.”
- serioussecurity 7y agoNo one stopped Uber, no one has stopped Tesla (Tesla hasn't been able deal with regression testing on a lane finding system...)
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- saturnV 7y agoThey haven't shut down, they are selling their prototype and I think they have recently put out a new model.
- wpietri 7y agoGiven HN's general suspicion of government regulation, especially its quality and accuracy, I'm surprised to see people argue here that it's sufficient to counter the "move fast and break things" mentality. Especially given that regulatory arbitrage (moving from CA to AZ) was involved in Uber's vehicular manslaughter.