If my life depended on having a self-driving car ready in a year to drive me to California, I'd have a self-driving car ready in a year. It could drive me to Ca

If my life depended on having a self-driving car ready in a year to drive me to California, I'd have a self-driving car ready in a year. It could drive me to California with perhaps only a 25% chance of an accident. I mean, it might be driving with the emergency blinkers on the whole time, at 10 miles per hour, and flashing the horn, or crazy stuff like that, but making a basic self-driving car just isn't out-of-scope for an amateur. DARPA urban challenge was 2007, and 6 cars finished an urban course, with the fastest averaging 14MPH, and most developed mostly by students, with professor support. Today, I can get a lot of that stuff CoTS, open source, or read papers about what they did. I couldn't sell millions of self-driving cars, because of edge cases, manufacturing, or what not, but it's not fundamentally different from biohacking. Technology moves forward. Disclaimer: I'm not an MD, biologist, or similar, but I am pretty good at all the stuff that goes into a self-driving car. I'm not claiming a /typical serious amateur/ could build one. I'm claiming /I/ could build one.