White hat vs black hat, big difference. I would imagine if you hacked in to any of the 3 letter government agencies, but didn't do anything with the data, you would still be facing serious prison time.
To clarify, I'm not really asking about the customer-facing side of the legality here. I'm asking about the recourse a car manufacturer has against comma's hacking of its software and hardware IP. Recourse that is either criminal or civil.
Same reason tuners can do what they do, but to an even lesser extent. For one thing the customer owns the vehicle and can make any changes they want - they're not replicating the ECU. Second the Comma just simply sits between the factory ADAS and the cars longitudinal/latitudinal controls, and sends signals back and forth to them both. It's not actually "hacking" anything, breaking any secret encryption, or anything like that. Those terms are more marketing than reality of how it works.
From what I saw there they were using the Rivian radar/adaptive cruise information and potentially could use blind spot monitoring sensors, but using the Comma 3X cameras.
Thanks for sharing!
Yeah I don't think it's the worst system ever, certainly a lot more impressive than your last vehicle but compared to completive vehicles for the price or even lower (like Kia) Rivian is way behind on driver assistance. The lane keeping constantly cuts off even under bridges and overpass, or tunnels, randomly unavailable, doesn't keep to one side to give room to larger vehicles, doesn't always keep the lane well around curves, and of course doesn't work at all outside of major highways. My 2018 Kia Stinger had basic lane keeping on all roads - and car that cost half as much and is now 7 years old.
I live in the deep south so snow isn't really an issue for me, but I have to imagine the argument can be made that it's safer to disallow cruise control entirely (i.e., both "dumb" or "assisted) in weather that is bad enough to block the sensors such as snow, extreme rain, etc. -- not because the sensors are blocked, but because if the weather is that bad the driver needs to be in full control of the vehicle.
Good point. I m the guy who would keep it slow and distanced in that situation but ppl including me would be trained that the cruise slows for you, increasing risk.
Awesome! I have chipped in for a harness as well - I am very excited to see this come to fruition. It's probably what I would consider the biggest "miss" of the entire vehicle, so Comma AI will greatly improve my enjoyment of my R1S.
No you don't have to inform your insurance company lol where did you hear that? Forget whatever nonsense you've read, go down to Tesla and test drive a vehicle with FSD v13 for yourself. Then test drive any other vehicle, and tell me they're even remotely close in terms of capability.
