[bks]

I chose the Hyundai Ioniq 5 as my current car specifically because it’s compatible with OpenPilot. It’s been a total game-changer for my driving experience. Just like their tagline says, “make driving chill,” and for me, it truly delivers on that promise.

[sofixa]

This reminds me of Waymo's approach to self-driving cars. Paraphrasing, but basically they found that progressively adding self-driving to help human drivers is bad, because it leads to the humans becoming complacent and not paying enough attention. Therefore they decided on an all or nothing approach, where their cars would be only and entirely self-driven.

[typewithrhythm]

This always seemed like a bit of bull from waymo. It's not an easy problem to work with existing manufacturers to give a better and or cheaper solution... Especially when there are established competitors with efficient verification and validation processes (that every manufacturer requires).

They decided it wasn't worth explaining that their techniques don't generalise to a driver assist. It would not be good or cheap enough to be worth developing the compliance and integration frameworks.

[simondotau]

That statement from Waymo always struck me as deeply uninsightful because it was really just a more complicated way of saying “self driving systems need to be good enough to drive the car on their own” which isn’t just obvious, but tautological.

[zrt1019]

I'm confused:

"THIS IS ALPHA QUALITY SOFTWARE FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A PRODUCT. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLYING WITH LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS. NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED."

Where can this be used? In a private parking lot?

[rogerrogerr]

The driver takes liability, of course, and this can be used wherever the driver deems it safe and useful.

[SkyPuncher]

They’re just trying to scare away people who thing they can chuck this on their car and suddenly have a self-driving robot that they don’t have to pay attention to.

[torlok]

You pay a thousand bones for a device you have to babysit. What's confusing about that?

[thatgerhard]

Is it like an app you install on the car or is it a custom integration?

[rvnx]

It's a dashcam that you put on the windshield with 2 cameras pointing forward and one inward (filming the driver).