Comma.ai Drive and Tour with George Hotz and Lex Fridman

[@lexfridman]

George gave me a demo drive and a tour around comma offices after our podcast chat. Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:30 - Comma demo drive
8:14 - Tour of comma offices

[@amercya2953]

You forgot 12:30 - Worst handshake in the history of mankind

[@itsamodernmess]

Is Lex wearing a suit?

[@chickenwings273]

Thank you Lex for this! Got me excited for the future

[@IceFromTheSun]

7:43 - A biker almost get hit by the postman

[@jerrypeng4013]

A small advice, you can use a wide angle lens if you're filming interiors (car, office). Makes your video look better, and me less nauseous from motion sickness. Love your videos, cheers!

[@alex_hiller]

Imagine the same kind of vibes but touring a scientist’s lab, or a mathematician’s study. More of these would be cool. Nice to see where the magic happens.

[@tauceti8341]

Dustin from smartereveryday has one for the us nuclear subs, and it was really fascinating

[@alex-ie7pt]

Like MTV cribs, but for geniuses!

[@freddyfozzyfilms2688]

Wouldn't a mathematicians study be the equivalent of someone's room? They just sit there and think.

[@alex_hiller]

@@freddyfozzyfilms2688 I think you're right, but I would love to take a tour of Eric Weinstein's study, or peruse the notebooks of Terry Tao, look at the chalkboard of John Conway. The everyday objects of brilliant people can be fascinating.

[@GabiN64]

A mathematician's study would be their office at university

[@JousefM]

George is literally one of the realest dudes in the business. Following him for ages now.

[@JousefM]

Thanks dad!

[@carlossegura403]

Indeed.

[@clewis519]

His response to ‘aliens and UFOs’ showed how intelligent he is.

[@grants7282]

He is. Yet I wish he would his market his product more effectively

[@FFUDS]

@@clewis519 every thing else homie has done in his life hasn't proven that, but his response to 'aliens and UFOs' did it for you huh?

[@semtex6412]

legend has it that George's hoodie is what gives him superhuman powers. just as Lex's suit does him.

[@dansken610]

He's a hacker, he's gotta wear a hoodie

[@Thisisausername719]

Lex you should do more of these types of videos, This was awesome!

[@EPFForsyth]

Lmao and I quote with a dead pan expression "From one robot to another, we are in this together" keep it up Lex...

[@maxalbright5786]

More content like this Lex. Love this shit

[@ZombieProdigyUS]

I love George Hotz, be sure to interview him again in the future! Dude is a real genius.

[@mackieandme]

Love it when two engineers talk without the BS. IMHO, George actually undersold the Comma a bit. I have a Prius Prime using OP with ZSS (a better, community created steering sensor) and I use mine all the time not just for highways, but even in city traffic - even for longitudinal - which is SOOOO much better that Toyota’s automatic cruise control - especially in stop n’ go traffic.

[@SoundSpeeding]

What is ZSS?

[@grimerat]

I drove to maine 12 hours each way 80-90% of the drive hands off the wheel with the comma ai. Their slogan is 'make driving chill' for a reason

[@viniciuslongo4622]

that's awesome, you should have made a video

[@junimeme5626]

"Damn! That's impressive"
- Lex, said in one of his two notes of speaking

🤣

[@Marcos10PT]

Loving these spin off episodes!!! Keep them cominggg

[@dennis_johnson]

George Hotz + Lex is an instant click!

[@LEMEOIN27]

7:46 Cyclist runs a red and nearly gets hit

[@fabianbraun2508]

what the fuck was the cyclist doing? Does he have a deathwish?

[@icebboylol8822]

completely normal phenomenon

[@harsimranbansal5355]

@Big Crunch even relatively simple systems handle those situations.

[@LEMEOIN27]

cyclist.py is optimised to maintain momentum at all costs, near misses also enable the adrenaline bonus branch - might be worth using a different data set for the next iteration..

[@ghidfg]

@Big Crunch thats an interesting point, yeah

[@maggyfrog]

quite heart-warming that lex expresses brotherhood with a 3d printer haha :D

[@dontbotherreading]

We are made up of the same thing at the most basic level

[@Steph1]

Zima blue confirmed

[@ChiefsGotBeef]

I read the license plate as “FUEL ON” the first time lmao

[@kugelblitz8086]

Same here 😅

[@Iumey]

i think they did that so the DMV accepted the plate :P

[@vtv4373]

Me too lol.

[@gregatragenet]

After having it a year in my Subi I forget how mind-blowing it is to ride in an openpilot car - thanks for the reminder! Did a 2 hour trip from San Diego to Apple Valley - at this point I just take it for granted, hop on the highway, engage it, and (mostly) sit back and enjoy the scenery.
At this point my only source of anxiety and the source of most of my disengagements are not the capabilities of openpilot, but the unpredictability of the bad (notoriously distracted socal) drivers around me. While most cases you can't help what the other driver does, hypothetically the system could incorporate some defensive driving. The one stand-out is blindspot avoidance. Lateral could adjust its follow distance slightly if it detects it has placed itself in the blindspot of the neighboring vehicle.

[@simontist]

Blind spots are always going to be a weakness with a single camera system... Unless the driver monitoring camera could perhaps be used...

[@MattOGormanSmith]

@@simontist more cameras won't help with the other driver's blind spot, until all vehicles have 360 cameras

[@hectorcanizales5900]

@@simontist not anymore with the comma 3

[@johnbeech]

That was amazing, so many smiles on everyone's faces - looks like you all really love what you do. Thanks for the insight Lex! Good luck George and the team :)

[@stuffzoom]

Gotta respect this guy and this company. Bringing ML + Hardware manufacturing together in 1 company and actually being profitable is quite something. Straight up no bullshit.

[@Naatti922]

Authentic DIY-attitude. Mad respect!

[@Jcbc]

George Hotz has been breaking the internet in the last few weeks

[@EnricoDiscolo]

Yes, but how do you read the plate:
FUEL ON
or
FU ELON
Lol

[@hwiese3448]

black latex skirt with blue sweatshirt is a bold move

[@brokeitguyio]

IG?

[@jakeroosenbloom]

"Elon's success is our success. If IOS succeeds, Android succeeds". On point.

[@yfs9035]

Absolutely

[@HardyAdventure]

Your podcasts are great, and this was simply sublime. It would be great to get more behind the scenes perspectives of some of your interviewees. Thanks for what you do Lex.

[@kubrabdncmnk2516]

He runs his own factory in his garage with his pals. And this is awesome’!

[@dansken610]

That's like a dream of mine, doing small scale manufacturing from some ghetto ass facilities. Epic

[@TheXTI]

Aaa türk varmış burda.

[@pewpewpistol]

Got his very own sweat shop

[@dzlfiqar]

He doesn't have any problem showing the numbers, since it's an open-source project. That's the beauty of it. It's all about execution.

[@sherlockwisdom]

"... As one robot to the other, we're in this together my brother..." - Lex

[@duderadley2383]

Part of what makes George so funny as a comedian is his legit knowledge of The Law he likely gained from his past endeavours
Compute clusters 😂

[@RejectAnticipatoryObedience]

This is beautiful. This makes me happy to be alive.

[@isaiahmacadam]

I absolutely love how raw and honest these videos are. Inspiring as heck that I could get my hands dirty in a tech startup

[@SolvingTheMoneyProblem]

👀

[@karsyz]

Can't wait for a video on this :D

[@linkinlinkinlinkin654]

@@verynice5574 they actually performed better than tesla in some of the recent benchmarks

[@Joe_Brig]

Hands free!

[@majorgamerjay5221]

"As one robot to another, we're in this together". Wow Lex!

[@mattanimation]

I love that the lunch table is also a table for the hardware, reminds me of the last startup I was at and that's a good thing.

[@kugelblitz8086]

Was watching Hotz on youtube for a last few days and now this dropped from the sky

[@zachchrist9343]

Same here. Lex "introduced" me lol

[@narutoshippuden665]

this feels like such student footage and I absolutely love it Lex

[@dhruvpandit8903]

3080s for non business purposes😂

[@enjoypolo]

Wow that was awesome Lex, thank you for the tour!

[@jieqi6341]

LOVE THIS!!!!! Please do more this kind of videos, it just made my day, thank you, Lex!

[@Randomstuffytiscool]

This will go back in time as the same as MAC in a garage. Great to see how hard this really is and how valuable they are. Please SPAC so I can invest !!

[@dirtrockground4543]

Lex this is awesome. One of my favorite things you've done lately. I'd love to be working on a solution like this. Seeing these videos is like looking at videos of your favorite bands in high school... dreaming about being a rock star. :)

[@johnraymondyanez5445]

FUELON
F-U-ELON
♥️-U-ELON
Comma team has a weird way of love.

[@tseland]

He had that plate on the first Acura when he started, just after the contract with Elon fell through, and he decided to make his own company

[@beast4000]

i literally read it as Fuel-On the first time and didnt see the F-U-Elon until the heart came out :D

[@QuinnShaw]

Did anyone else make the connection with "Fuel on" like gas? Which would also be an f-u to elon.

[@QuinnShaw]

@@beast4000 same, but that's also against elon.

[@Sal3600]

Elon offered a million$ to join the tesla team i think

[@jj342]

Office tour was the best. Holtz and Comma are very open...and lex is too. Honest, open and fun!

[@DanielZajic]

This video made me so happy. Startups are the best.

[@BobbyMontiel619]

You guys are in my area !! San Diego represent

[@jonecks]

SOOOOOOO COOOL ! thanks for bringing us along! I hope we can get more videos similar to this one too ! : )

[@AndrewNakas]

2 robots go for an autonomous drive using a smartphone hacked into a Hyundai car, what a great time to be alive!

[@kibryncrow8922]

😂

[@roliimhof]

@@kibryncrow8922 q

[@kootenpv]

Imagine driving and looking over and seeing Lex and George in a car, would be sick!

[@santiagobmx1000]

Thank you so much for allowing us to see this Lex!.

[@aydtsang]

George, Lex, and Elon are the only people on the internet who get me excited to wake up in the morning

[@edwardliddy]

i remember seeing a sci-fi movie similar to this. and the plot twist near the end is where george's character finds out to be elon's son but only after elon leaves earth to a one way mission to mars..

[@EudaderurScheiss]

this format is really cool. makes it really interesting to see what companies are up to. more of that please

[@GangstarGoose]

that hoodie that Alex is wearing is dope

[@guyallen2355]

Remarkable! Really fun to see these guys hustling to achieve their dreams! Down and dirty!

[@kchannel5317]

The set up that George has is really interesting. I can't even imagine the amount of detail and work it took to set it up. I've never heard of compute clusters before, but I'm definitely going to look into them.

[@vincentguerra8029]

I think it's just his way of sidestepping regulations😂

[@kchannel5317]

@@vincentguerra8029 More power to him. California has too much red tape to start a stable business anyways. This way he can focus more on improving his product and innovating instead filling out legal forms and having clueless inspectors tell you your work doesn't fit the "standard guidlines".

[@LightInTheNight1337]

@@kchannel5317 It's Nvidia trying to force people to buy more expensive GPUs

[@LightInTheNight1337]

@@vincentguerra8029 See www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/nvidia-updates-geforce-eula-to-prohibit-data-center-use/

[@vincentguerra8029]

@@kchannel5317 I couldn't agree more. Everything has it's limits, but i didn't see him exploiting child/slave labor so

[@AncientMysteriesAndInnovations]

Love you, Lex. You're doing an amazing job

[@venthakrishnanadikesavan5952]

This is the best video that I ever watched. I'm rooting for George Hotz success!

[@NoneNotNone]

lol all around good vibes from this video, great office environment

[@JJs_playground]

This is great to see... Inside look of the company.
The COO is 👍

[@jacejunk]

Nice. I would appreciate more "tours" as possible content in the future.

[@Vlad-vk3mm]

The FUELON plate xD

[@chrisbishop6928]

But now Elon has the door code to their garage entrance!

[@wilhelmthewoodcutter3428]

ok Lex, clearly you need to get out of the office more and get more shiny things to look at.

[@wilhelmthewoodcutter3428]

You missed the bonus footage (now edited out) She did a Gogins chin up challenge on the rings then George had her show her Terminator arm to Lex and he finally took notice of her over the printer he was bonding with.

[@neutraljump]

This was interesting and motivating to see, man! Thanks!

[@Dynamite_mohit]

Really Loved the office.
Thanks GEORGE and LEX for this wonderfull video

[@HumAiClub]

That was awesome, great video Lex. I love the progress of George & Comma Ai. Much love and wishing for your success...

[@MadcapClover]

Commenting again to say this was amazing

[@TheAncientLich]

I love how artisanal this all looks :) loved it

[@arincrumley]

The side stepping of all the red tape is pretty incredible. It seems odd they are 3D printing everything and building this all from stock phones they buy in bulk but then if you consider that all of this allows them to say it's a kit and people are just doing what they feel like doing with their cars and their phones is interesting. It suggests that before we live in a world where robotic taxi fleets zip you from place to place we will live in a world where a car someone got when they were 16 has now been upgraded to drive itself and even after being pulled over by the cops for looking at your phone while driving it's unclear to the cop or the judge or the government that some tech was being trusted to drive that car. Compare that to the regulatory nightmare everyone else deals with and it would seem there is a major legal overhead savings in the comma AI approach. But will it really provide enough of what the user wants? Well they say they are android. That they aren't iOS. And that it's an eco system that will ultimately prevail. That's a great pitch but we will have to wait and see how extensive the "let's get my car to drive itself" market ends up being. It's not zero so that's good. And that means that Comma AI is likely to succeed enough to get the the next phase where their system can begin to get more sophisticated.

[@ZortraXTV]

14:40 Well, hello there! Greetings from Poland ❤️

[@PahaPoniesSpanishMustangs]

I raise horses in the middle of nowhere. How very cool to see this world.... Thanks Lex

[@SBA_poiko]

When are they becoming driverless 😁

[@devara2055]

your world sounds cool!

[@shadcovert1160]

She is flipping adorable.

[@sloth6765]

That hoodie is giving off Alex Jones Infowars vibes lol, she's clearly not a fan of broadcasting

[@3DegreesNorth638]

No

[@VperVendetta1992]

Right?

[@yelloroad]

The door is open and it's a journey. Super super awesome Fridman

[@jaredgambeski2991]

You guys always kind of had some personality differences but seeing you guys hanging out and becoming friends through the years is awesome to watch . You guys are both dope really cool to see

[@dozendonut]

Thanks to the Team at Comma.ai for the bts! very awesome!

[@christhomasism]

We will look back at this video one day and it will be even more amazing

[@marcabramsky1736]

This was amazing. I only recently started listening to George. An amazing fellow. I simply love the fact that he is doing this one car at a time. Told the VC's and MC's to get lost and embarked on the journey himself. Fuck ya!

This is better than most corporate self-driving propaganda out there with half-promises never met.

[@jimbob4456]

It’s amazing what he is doing with so little resources

[@liuning66]

That ‘FUEL ON’ Cali license plate says all. It takes extraordinary IQ & brutal honesty to quantify that.

[@joshf980]

Comma.ai is pretty sweet. I came really close to buying one (+ a new Toyota Corolla) this past spring. Was on the fence between that and a new Tesla, leaning toward Comma.ai because of the difference in price. The deciding factor came when the dealership told me it'd void the warranty, so I'd be on my own if the vehicle had any [completely unrelated] problems - that, and I had some uncertainty about whether an aftermarket self-driving device could lead to additional liability in case of an accident. I wound up buying the Tesla instead, and I love it, but if the warranty/liability issues hadn't been there, I'd have gone with the Comma'd Toyota just to save some cash. If Comma addresses those warranty/liability concerns, it will be an easy purchase for mainstream audiences.

[@josepmdc]

That's really impressive. I remember a few years ago that their office was a house in SF and now look at this. It's also really cool how such a small company can have such an amazing product that can compete with Tesla and GM.

[@0xszander0]

"If ios succeeds android succeeds" Funny I finally hear him say that phrase. It is indeed exactly the difference here between autopilot and openpilot.

[@tobene]

I wonder if traditional car companies will eventually jump on openpilot, right now they all seem to be developing their own "windows phone"

[@0xszander0]

@@tobene Yeah I wonder that as well! I'm always amazed how colossal companies seem to overlook solutions that are being worked on as we speak. It is better to have your own system, but let's be honest here none of them are ever getting near auto or open pilot. So indeed it's the when more than if! (it's probably as soon as it's too late for some of them)

[@HavokR505]

George Hotz is like a kid. its pretty cool to see that energy about a product

[@wwjjss33]

Very exciting to mark the progress! Until I can afford a Tesla I have been toying with getting some recent compact that would be Comma.ai compatible. Love their enthusiasm and realistic goals 👍🏼

[@MattOGormanSmith]

Sinclair C5? oh, you said recent ;)

[@thundreturtle]

The blonde lady doesn't have a ring Lex wink wink :D
Super cool video

[@andrewandersonbmx7009]

More of this, what a nice set of people they are.

[@RiccardoGrinover]

Awesome stuff!
Love to see how other companies are setup and operate.
Would be incredible to see this for more of the other companies you get the chance to talk to.

[@michaelheffner2853]

Thank u Lex!! That was cool....super kewl actually...I enjoyed the tour!!😎

[@simonstrandgaard5503]

Thank you George + team for a look into your amazing office, it's very inspiring.

[@sergio3674]

More of this, please!!!

[@gustavsjokvist2668]

Lol the girl's hoodie is pretty based

[@subjekt5577]

I want that hoodie. Her entire aesthetic was pretty fly but the hoodie makes it.

[@hardcoreclassicenjoyer]

It's so good. The fuck is the skirt tho. She looks like someone out of a video game ngl.

[@neonblood4658]

Based on what?

[@gameplayclub8721]

What a loving person George Hotz is.
"If Elon Succeeds, we succeed. If IOS succeeds Android succeeds."

[@hulk6315]

@@MrXerxes wow

[@ModeratelyAmused]

It's such a healthy business model. Not trying to be first. Not trying to destroy the competition. Just a goal of being effective and creating something unique. Only thing left is getting out of California so more of the cost can go to hiring more people and a give them a nicer workspace with the taxes they save from moving.

[@JR-bc4rn]

Lex should lay down a debate between George and Elon on autopilot 🔥🔥💯
They both do have a history lol

[@lup4634]

Guys one pice of advice get a plastic injection machine.
It will be faster and cheaper and more eco friendly too.

[@TheXnyu]

and i was like what does fuel on mean?

[@afz902k]

Awesome hoodie on that COO

[@johnwick3321]

Loving the bald & bankrupt vibe in this video. More of that, please.

[@whytushar]

The real behind the scenes. Love love it! Good job Lex.

[@Konradulations]

are they printing the exact same part? if so injection molding might be a better solution and faster

[@kelvinxg6754]

cool tour lex
hope to see you guys together more !
love your stuff.