WashingtonUS regulators are probing 3 deaths involving comma.ai’s driver assist.
Comma says openpilot runs on more than 325 models, and more than 30,000 drivers use it.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration doubts the system detects stopped or slow cars, and 1 crash hit a first responder’s vehicle.
At least two crashes ran forks of the main build, including the fatal one, which used FrogPilot.
The Office of Defects Investigation is now tracing which software version each of the 5 cars ran.
How each outlet framed it
- Ars Technica
- traces Hotz from iOS hacker to comma.ai founder, notes original goal was selling to Tesla to displace Mobileye
Sources: Ars Technica