Comma in comma.

[whoololon]

I'll set the scene for you: a hacker manages to break the security of the iPhone (or so they say). Far from staying anonymous or continuing his "underground" life behind an alias, George Hotz jumps into the spotlight in pursuit of fame, fortune (money, not the kind from the gas station) and glory.

A true (US) patriot chasing the American dream, he sets up a company called comma.ai whose sole purpose is self-promotion to create autonomous driving systems for consumer land vehicles (cars). Specifically, his flagship product, the "comma one", was a system to provide autonomous driving to any car.

The goal was to outdo as many competitors as possible to place "his product", while continuing to promote and attract suckers investors.

Well, following a request from the relevant US authority, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA, equivalent to the DGT) about the details of the "product", something must have offended the young bug collector visionary so much that he decided to suspend the project.

According to what has been revealed, it was a series of questions to detail the safety aspects of the system, how it would be implemented in the vehicle's driving system, in what road conditions it would be effective...
Faced with the pressure to provide the information or face a financial penalty, Hotz simply cancels the project.

As you can see, it's normal for anyone to feel offended by such a questionnaire, especially when it was announced that the system was very safe and worked perfectly. Isn't that enough?
Given the reaction, it's hard to imagine what would have happened if, instead of a questionnaire, they had asked for a supervised test of the product.

It's a real shame that projects like this are abandoned due to the morbid and unjustified curiosity of some public body, fail at the moment of performing a performance test, or simply the prototype sent for investigation of its operation is defective and doesn't fulfill its purpose.

Comma one, another project gone to waste, along with so many perpetual motion engines, zero-point energy generators, antigravity generators, cold fusion reactors and orgone catalysts; damn bureaucrats.

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[cobito]

For those who are always with the "Marca España" every time a patriotic puff comes out...

Good storytelling.