A few days before Thanksgiving, George Hotz, a 26-year-old hacker, invites me to his house in San Francisco to check out a project he’s been working on. He says it’s a self-driving car that he had built in about a month. The claim seems absurd. But when I turn up that morning, in his garage there’s a white 2016 Acura ILX outfitted with a laser-based radar (lidar) system on the roof and a camera mounted near the rearview mirror. A tangle of electronics is attached to a wooden board where the glove compartment used to be, a joystick protrudes where you’d usually find a gearshift, and a 21.5-inch screen is attached to the center of the dash. “Tesla only has a 17-inch screen,” Hotz says.
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The story of a very bright kid that unleashes the power of deep learning and machine intelligence to tech his car how to drive. And it seems to be working. Someone to look at very carefully.
But also a story about the power that these new tools have on our world and should be leveraged more aggressively by corporations.
Look at the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTrgRYa2wbI
The story of a very bright kid that unleashes the power of deep learning and machine intelligence to tech his car how to drive. And it seems to be working. Someone to look at very carefully.
But also a story about the power that these new tools have on our world and should be leveraged more aggressively by corporations.
Look at the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTrgRYa2wbI
The story of a very bright kid that unleashes the power of deep learning and machine intelligence to tech his car how to drive. And it seems to be working. Someone to look at very carefully.
But also a story about the power that these new tools have on our world and should be leveraged more aggressively by corporations.
Look at the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTrgRYa2wbI