DETROIT/SAN FRANCISCO: San Francisco entrepreneur George Hotz was so confident in his self-driving startup Comma.ai that he had T-shirts made that boldly proclaimed: "We are gonna be so rich." But the agency recently released guidelines for self-driving vehicles and systems, indicating its intent to provide more oversight before such systems reach the market. But in one of his postings on Twitter he said plans for the plug-in driverless car device called Comma One had been "cancelled." GM earlier this year purchased a small San Francisco self-driving car startup called Cruise Automation that at one time had envisioned selling an aftermarket driverless car system, before abandoning the idea on its own. But in his tweet on Oct 28, Hotz said: “Would much rather spend my life building amazing tech than dealing with regulators and lawyers.

Source: The Star November 01, 2016 05:01 UTC