Code for iPhone hacker’s self-driving car kit appears on GitHub

The code for the software and plans for the hardware of Comma.ai, a kit to turn any car into a self-driving car, have appeared on GitHub. The developer, former iPhone hacker George Hotz, wants to circumvent regulations by making the plans open source.

Hotz is not yet selling a product due to the step, but shows alpha software intended for research purposes according to The Verge. As a result, he himself does not have to comply with strict regulations regarding the production of equipment for use in cars. He says he aims his software at enthusiasts. Last month, Hotz announced that he would stop his project because of a letter he had received about it.

The code can be found on GitHub, for both the software as for the kit, which Hotz refers to as Comma One. Currently, the project is far from being ready for mass production and the developer will continue to develop both the hardware and software in the coming months.

By April, Hotz had raised another $3.1 million investment from developing the system. He planned to release the Comma One before the end of this year for a price of $999 combined with a monthly fee of $24 for the software. Hotz is known under the name Geohot, among other things, for the fact that he developed a jailbreak for the iPhone at the age of seventeen and later developed a PlayStation 3 exploit.

Hotz with Comma One, image via comma.ai