Scaling for 10x User GrowthLet’s pull back the curtain so you can see how we built new services while decreasing the cost of processing all this data.Mar 8, 2021182Mar 8, 2021182
Working with comma: A Guide for Car CompaniesAfter Consumer Reports tested our product, we’ve seen a big uptick in reach outs from car companies. Some have understood us better than…Dec 15, 2020364Dec 15, 2020364
Understanding the openpilot Safety ModelWe’ve been seeing questions about if modifications to openpilot violate our safety model or not. The safety model has three main…Dec 9, 202076Dec 9, 202076
Safer Control of SteeringI’ve seen several very sketchy experiments around lately where people are controlling the steering of cars in unsafe ways. Let me break…Oct 27, 20202473Oct 27, 20202473
The road to openpilot 1.0This is the second post in our three part series about the three main teams at comma.ai. Research, operations and openpilot. In this post…Jul 6, 20205352Jul 6, 20205352
Towards a superhuman driving agentAt comma research, our mission is to build a superhuman driving agent. A superhuman driving agent is one that can drive a car to your…Jun 29, 20203464Jun 29, 20203464
The Unconjoined Triangle of SuccessAt comma, our mission is to solve self driving cars while delivering shippable intermediaries. Everything we do is derived from that…Jun 23, 20202913Jun 23, 20202913
Dude, Where’s My Car?I swear this is a true story and not made up for marketing reasons.May 5, 20201551May 5, 20201551
Self-Driving Car For FreeMeet your latest hardware, the comma zero, aka laptop + webcams + car harness + black panda (only needed if you want to control a real…Mar 27, 20205383Mar 27, 20205383
Crowdsourced Segnet (you can help!)Although openpilot models are mostly trained end to end using the path the car drove, there are a few steps in our pipeline that still…Mar 3, 2020Mar 3, 2020
Hacking an Audi: performing a man-in-the-middle attack on FlexRayDriving an Audi with a joystick by Injecting steering commands on the FlexRay busMar 3, 20201Mar 3, 20201
A 2020 Theme: QualityThe comma two was a huge success, comma is now a profitable company! This was a huge milestone for us. Of course, the work is not close to…Jan 27, 20202Jan 27, 20202
A 2020 Theme: Externalizationopenpilot has come a long way. From supporting 1 car with 0 tests, to supporting 63 cars with a decent test suite. From Python 2.7 to…Jan 17, 20201Jan 17, 20201
A Tour through openpilotThis document is mostly written for internal consumption, but I figured, why not make it public? openpilot is our open source ADAS system…Dec 3, 20191Dec 3, 20191
A 100x Investment (Part 2)So I sat down to write part 2, and at first it was exactly what you’d expect. Copying and pasting the titles, “Don’t hand engineer feature…Oct 24, 20198Oct 24, 20198
A 100x Investment (Part 1)comma.ai has raised $8.1 million, Zoox has raised $990 million. Cruise and Waymo have raised even more.Oct 22, 201910Oct 22, 201910
Toyota Giraffe Configuration FixIf you are reading this, it’s probably because you got an alert that looks like the one below:Oct 9, 20191Oct 9, 20191
Our Hardware FutureAs many of you who follow us know, comma is striving to be as consumer friendly as possible. We built panda and giraffe in a different…Oct 9, 2019Oct 9, 2019
AEB: a Case Study Using comma.ai DatasetA data driven approach to evaluate driving assistance featuresSep 10, 2019Sep 10, 2019