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George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles | Lex Fridman Podcast #31

Lex Fridman · podcast · Watch on YouTube

Self-driving & autonomous vehiclesTech pioneers & interviews

What it is

Lex Fridman's two-hour podcast with George Hotz, founder of Comma.ai, covering openpilot, autonomous driving and Hotz's views on AI and technology.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it for Hotz's reasoning on cameras versus lidar and for an opinionated, original thinker's overview of comma and openpilot.

  • 7 people recommended it
  • 5 different months
  • 3 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “I strongly recommend Lex Firdman’s recent interview with George Hotz”

    Hotz and Fridman discuss camera versus lidar in detail.

    mark_l_watson, 2019-08 · Strong recommendation · in “Camera vs. Lidar”

  2. “I loved this interview Lex Fridman had with George Hotz.”

    Interview with an opinionated original thinker who runs comma.ai.

    bko, 2020-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?”

  3. “Highly recommend them: #31”

    One of several Lex Fridman podcasts with comma's founder.

    nomel, 2026-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands”

  4. “Just saw an excellent two hour interview by Lex Fridman of George Hotz”

    Excellent interview on why Hotz thinks cameras beat lidar.

    rmason, 2019-08 · Recommendation · in “Camera vs. Lidar”

  5. “There's a pretty good talk about the future self-driving cars here”

    Good talk about the future of self-driving cars.

    dumbfoundded, 2019-08 · Recommendation · in “How Uber Got Lost”

  6. “geohot has done interviews ([0], [1]) and that give overview of comma/openpilot at high level.”

    High-level overview of comma and openpilot from geohot.

    czr, 2019-11 · Recommendation · in “Show HN: Autopilot written in Keras for Self Driving Cars”

  7. “This Lex Friedman interview is pretty explanatory on the topic of responsibility.”

    Interview explains Comma's responsibility compared with Tesla's driver monitoring.

    kick, 2020-01 · Recommendation · in “Comma Two Devkit”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: george hotz, comma.ai, openpilot, camera vs lidar, autonomous vehicles

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