How a College Kid Made His Honda Civic Self-Driving for $700

[xytrius]

MIT Technology Review has a front pager about a young student (Brevan Jorgenson) who did what car companies like Tesla charge many times more. This was accomplished with free software and a 3-D printed case. The device used is called Neo.

From the article:

Brevan Jorgenson?s grandma kept her cool when he took her for a nighttime spin in the Honda Civic he's modified to drive itself on the highway. A homemade device in place of the rear-view mirror can control the brakes, accelerator, and steering, and it uses a camera to identify road markings and other cars.

A Neo is built from a OnePlus 3 smartphone equipped with Comma?s now-free Openpilot software, a circuit board that connects the device to the car?s electronics, and a 3-D-printed case. Jorgenson got the case printed by an online service and soldered the board together himself.

Source and full story:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6...iving-for-700/

[AliG]

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh .

I have friends in Ford's autonomous department. We have prototypes that have received very favorable reviews from the press, and even I wouldn't consider those actually self-driving (nor could they have been built for 10,000 times his budget).

[xytrius]

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh .

I have friends in Ford's autonomous department. We have prototypes that have received very favorable reviews from the press, and even I wouldn't consider those actually self-driving (nor could they have been built for 10,000 times his budget).

I take your point.
The review lacked analysis; a professional should have inspected and tested the car.

But here is my view:
This act percolates innovation. It seems to me that it is an invigoration of technology from the ground up. An example was made, so that is why I thought it was XS news, the moderator thought otherwise.