A 100x Investment (2019)
I love the idea of Comma. It makes a lot of sense to have an after-market instrument to drive your car. There&#x27;s no reason you have to re-build a car. You can probably get very far with just a few sensors and connecting to existing car controls. Humans drive perfectly well without lidar or a large number of cameras, so a bot should be able to as well. You can tell how full of shit a company is by the number of tangential things in their mission statement. If they want self driving, and all electric, and made from recycled parts, and give back 2% to the environment, they&#x27;re prob full of it.<p>Comma is taking an incremental approach which I like. Most driving is done on long monotonous roads going straight. If you can eliminate that portion, you&#x27;d add huge value.<p>The other cool thing is that its completely open-source (except for code used to train the models). You can install it on your own device and run it, or fork it. I read a high percentage of users use custom forks of the software. They also have a discord where you can talk to the engineers and people working there if you have any issues or questions. Imagine calling someone from Toyota and just being connected to a auto-engineer?<p>There&#x27;s a lot to like about Comma. There are few businesses out there with this mindset. I hope other companies take their lead and think outside the box and stop worrying about the next round and just get some hackers together and build something people want.