Comma's hands-off driving tech under investigation after 2 fatal crashes

mrpippy

Completely predictable. They’ll likely dodge a lawsuit in this case (since the car that was hit was an unoccupied police car) but it will inevitably happen.

phoronixrly

This goes to show that any car, be it internal combustion, electric, manually operated or self-driving is still a car, and thus is still capable of inflicting death (among other negatives). The difference is still just in the frequency of deaths (and with self-driving this is still under debate).

john_strinlai

> Some of the crashes, including at least one of the fatal incidents, may have involved the use of “forked” or modified versions of Comma.ai’s software, according to the ODI. i am still hesitant of tesla and similarly large players, it seems absolutely wild to me that people are using a fork of a small company's software to drive their car .

globular-toast

Is it legal to operate a motor vehicle modified to such an extent on a public highway? Retrofitted self driving using, as far as I can tell, completely unregulated software seems absolutely crazy to me. Free software is a good thing, but don't run your buggy shit in a way that can hurt others.

WithinReason

AFAIK their driver monitoring is very good and checks if you're looking at the road, so I wonder how this happened.

dymk

Over what period of time, and how many miles? How does that rate compare with other LKAS / ACC systems? Were they using the experimental vison-based distance estimation system & comma driven longitudinal control, or the car's stock radar based ACC (which bypasses comma control entirely)? There's not enough details in the article to say if the comma contributed or not to the crashes.

rich_sasha

Unrelated, but it seems to be that “Comma” is a terrible name for a system that might be involved (even not at fault) in a crash resulting in life-changing injuries.