EV Fan
12-20-2015, 03:39 PM
Tesla's Autopilot uses hardware and software from Mobileye to control the Model S on highways. Apparently (http://electrek.co/2015/12/16/elon-musk-offered-a-multimillion-dollar-bonus-for-geohot-to-build-a-mobileye-crushing-autopilot-system-for-tesla/) Tesla would like to discontinue using Mobileye’s code in favor of bringing it in-house, according to an email exchange between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and George Hotz, a software engineer mainly known for being the first person to jailbreak the iPhone.
A report by Bloomberg's Ashlee Vance (above) would have us believe 26-year old hacker George Hotz has built a self-driving car from scratch in a month. Unfortunately for this urban myth, it's fairly obvious the 2016 Acura ILX he's using isn't a random choice.... Honda have offered Adaptive Cruise Control with Lane Assist (https://youtu.be/OdJryr0ZWKg) since 2013.
AcuraWatch Plus (http://www.acura.com/pricing.aspx?model=ilx#~px5JR1SitKN3gc) is a basic $1300 option available on this car that provides Adaptive Cruise Control, Lane Keeping Assist, Collision Mitigation Braking & Road Departure Mitigation.. So the Acura ILX can already perform this 'self-driving' demonstration off the showroom floor.
A more accurate description of Hotz's work is "reverse engineering".
While there is some talk during the interview about machine learning (https://youtu.be/lL16AQItG1g), the system developed for Google's self driving cars by Sebastian Thrun is available free on-line via Udacity (https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-machine-learning--ud120).
UPDATE: Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has now posted (https://www.teslamotors.com/support/correction-article-first-person-hack-iphone-built-self-driving-car) a correction to the article (http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driving-car/) by Ashlee Vance politely calling the entire story "inaccurate"!http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?a=TMttBBSYKKY:iqpIAICFlis:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?i=TMttBBSYKKY:iqpIAICFlis:V_sGLiPBpWU (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?a=TMttBBSYKKY:iqpIAICFlis:V_sGLiPBpWU) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?d=qj6IDK7rITs (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?a=TMttBBSYKKY:iqpIAICFlis:qj6IDK7rITs) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?i=TMttBBSYKKY:iqpIAICFlis:gIN9vFwOqvQ (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?a=TMttBBSYKKY:iqpIAICFlis:gIN9vFwOqvQ)
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A report by Bloomberg's Ashlee Vance (above) would have us believe 26-year old hacker George Hotz has built a self-driving car from scratch in a month. Unfortunately for this urban myth, it's fairly obvious the 2016 Acura ILX he's using isn't a random choice.... Honda have offered Adaptive Cruise Control with Lane Assist (https://youtu.be/OdJryr0ZWKg) since 2013.
AcuraWatch Plus (http://www.acura.com/pricing.aspx?model=ilx#~px5JR1SitKN3gc) is a basic $1300 option available on this car that provides Adaptive Cruise Control, Lane Keeping Assist, Collision Mitigation Braking & Road Departure Mitigation.. So the Acura ILX can already perform this 'self-driving' demonstration off the showroom floor.
A more accurate description of Hotz's work is "reverse engineering".
While there is some talk during the interview about machine learning (https://youtu.be/lL16AQItG1g), the system developed for Google's self driving cars by Sebastian Thrun is available free on-line via Udacity (https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-machine-learning--ud120).
UPDATE: Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has now posted (https://www.teslamotors.com/support/correction-article-first-person-hack-iphone-built-self-driving-car) a correction to the article (http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driving-car/) by Ashlee Vance politely calling the entire story "inaccurate"!http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?a=TMttBBSYKKY:iqpIAICFlis:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?i=TMttBBSYKKY:iqpIAICFlis:V_sGLiPBpWU (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?a=TMttBBSYKKY:iqpIAICFlis:V_sGLiPBpWU) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?d=qj6IDK7rITs (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?a=TMttBBSYKKY:iqpIAICFlis:qj6IDK7rITs) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?i=TMttBBSYKKY:iqpIAICFlis:gIN9vFwOqvQ (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?a=TMttBBSYKKY:iqpIAICFlis:gIN9vFwOqvQ)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/pEcq/~4/TMttBBSYKKY
More... (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/pEcq/~3/TMttBBSYKKY/26-year-old-hacker-builts-self-driving.html)