I have the original Comma 3 in my car (2019 Acura RDX), and it's pretty game-changing for long drives. The car already has adaptive cruise control and lane-keep-assist, but you need to keep your hands on the wheel. With the Comma, I can set it up on most of the roads I drive (local or highway) and it'll keep me going at the desired speed in the center of the lane (up to a certain max turning torque, which is a limitation on the Acura LKAS system - if you're in the Bay Area, it handles 101 just fine but will struggle on the 280).<p>I've logged about 3k miles of autonomous driving at this point and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it if your car supports it, with the understanding that it's a limited system and you still have to pay attention the entire time. Unfortunately, it seems like a lot of the newer cars have tighter security around CAN bus communication, so it may not be easy for Comma to continue to do their thing.
There really needs to be more regulation with products like this.<p>As a start transparent disclosure of their safety record, a restriction on shipping the product to countries where such devices are not legal, clarity on how the device behaves under adverse conditions e.g. rain/snow etc.<p>Comma selling this product like it's some car accessory looks pretty reckless to me.
What's the difference between this and the previous version?<p>Edit: looks like no more user upgradable storage via m.2, but it's a bit cheaper. It's also no longer necessary for some vehicles to have a Raspberry Pi sitting between the car and the comma
It says 360 degrees vision with 3 cameras. How does that work? It doesn't show anywhere where the cameras go. I don't understand how you can get 360 degrees just from a device on your windshield.<p>I find the website so lackluster. There isn't even a picture of what it looks like from the other side.
Problem is, as a private user I don't want it. Now they have support for vehicles by MAN, and that cam become an explosive growth market far them.<p>Strangely they walked back storage space. There used to be a 1 or 2 terabyte ssd/m2 storage option.
Doesn't seem to work with Teslas, thought it would be an interesting thing to turn on both at the same time: battle of the robo-drivers. Missed opportunity, if you ask me.