comma ai | Build the Future | George Hotz and comma.ai team | Join https://comma.ai/jobs

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i like comma specifically because we're building something that has never been built before so it's the the new frontier it's space exploration what's up oh yeah you're good okay take three my previous job i worked at a big company and if i saw something that i wanted to give that specific team feedback on it was quite difficult to to do so just because how large the company was with comma if i want to tell somebody about something within open pilot or some other aspect i can walk down to their office and just talk with them directly the two things that we look for fundamentally are intelligence and motivation you know if i'm thinking about a company i want to work for i want to work for a company full of great people right you got to make sure the bar stays really high not just for who you hire but also create around i think we have the best chance at solving self-driving cars because our approach involves actually shipping a product and proving it out as we go it also allows us to become profitable and be you know financially responsible so we have thousands of users every day that upload data and we process those drives that they upload most of them within seconds and all of them within like 10 minutes or something like that everyone who has tackled the self-driving car problem has done it like the silly way where you try to like you know put boxes around everything um and then you uh take all those boxes and try to like figure out you know what the car ought to do with some hard-coded algorithm and like i feel like the whole lesson that we all have learned in the research community is that you should just learn everything you know learn it front to back and that's exactly what we do just waiting for this shit to install you know we we have a whole stack that teaches the car um as closely as we can to just do what a human would do you know imitate the human driving policy and that's like what what makes comma really special in the self-driving space is just that we're doing the smart thing to teach cars to drive themselves um no cone detectors here no cone detectors that's how we do it the people at comma have a desire to work harder i vibe off of that and i feed off of that energy of others like wanting to like just do everything they can and so that helps me kind of also want to work harder self-driving is going to be solved by 20 people and uh you know a thousand computers you