Comma.ai&nbsp;offers open-source autonomous car alternative research

American hacker and entrepreneur George Hotz will be offering research from his autonomous car venture Comma.ai as open-source data. Comma.ai’s proprietary tech can be assembled through online, freely available plans, with the software also available for free. Hotz believes that its use in autonomous vehicles will be the most important application of AI over the next five years, and will have the biggest impact on the cultural perception of the technology.

Hacker, entrepreneur, rabble rouser and freeform rapper George Hotz joined us on the Engadget stage at CES to talk about the decision to open-source his autonomous car research and the state of self driving. He also weighed in on California's regulatory system (he's not a fan) and how he's excited about the future of augmented reality.