The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car
Like most hard problems, it&#x27;s easy to pick off the low-hanging fruit and claim that you have solution.<p>Self-driving cars (in some form or the other, under some loose definition of &quot;self&quot; and &quot;driving&quot;) have been around since the 20s. But it still remains a vexing problem.<p>It is quite easy to program a car to stay between 2 cars and follow the car in front. It is quite another to have the same car drive on (a) a road without lane markings; (b) in adverse weather conditions (snow, anybody? Hotz should take the car to Tahoe); (c) in traffic anomalies (ambulance&#x2F;cop approaching from behind; accident&#x2F;debris in front; etc. etc.); and so on.<p>No offense to GeoHot, but I&#x27;d love to see his system work in rush-hour 101 traffic; or cross the Bay Bridge, where (coming to SF) the lanes merge arbitrarily.<p>The key challenges are not only to drive when there&#x27;s traffic; but to also drive when there&#x27;s NO traffic, because lane markings, etc. are practically nonexistent in many places.<p>Having said all that, I still admire his enthusiasm and drive(no pun intended). Tinker on!