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May 20, 2020 02:01 pm

Teen Programmer Uses Real Self-Driving Car Tech in 'GTA V'

Cars that can drive themselves in certain situations are an expensive luxury, but programmers, hobbyists, and gearheads across the world are working to drive down the cost of the technology and make it easier to use. Comma.ai, founded by infamous hacker George Hotz (AKA "geohot"). is one of those companies. Drivers can install the "comma two" kit in supported models and take the technology for a spin. From a report: For those not ready to make the leap, 15-year-old programmer Leon Hillman has taken Comma.ai's open source driving software and retrofitted it to control vehicles in Grand Theft Auto V. What that means is they have figured out a way to put self-driving cars into a video game from 2013, relieving the player of the compulsion to, uh, play the game. Comma.ai lets people retrofit recent model Honda and Toyota cars with software that brings automated lane centering and adaptive cruise control for use on highways and in stop-and-go traffic to the vehicles. The software, Openpilot, is open source so anybody can manually add support to more vehicles, if they have the ability to do so. Comma.ai places a camera system inside the car that views the road and the driver, a tablet to give driver feedback, and a cabling system that lets the system connect up to the car and run Openpilot. "Openpilot works by taking the radar data integrated with supported car models and combining it with the camera built into comma hardware, to determine what acceleration, braking, and steering events are required," Comma.ai's website explained.

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