I work in the self driving car industry. Building a level 5 self-driving car is not possible with a small team. Period.<p>What they are building is more of advanced cruise control. This I believe they can succeed at. ACC is orders of magnitude less difficult than level 5 AV.
It's an open source company you can find all their releases on GitHub and try it yourself if your model is supported <a href="https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/devel/README.md#hardware" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/devel/README.md#ha...</a>
They definitely ship code, and people seem to like them. I really like their model, the hacker culture, the holy crap we built a self driving car for <1k, but I don't know if they'll be a real contender in industry.