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commaai / openpilot

openpilot

openpilot is an operating system for robotics. Currently, it upgrades the driver assistance system on 300+ supported cars.

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What it is

openpilot is an operating system for robotics. Currently, it upgrades the driver assistance system on 300+ supported cars.

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Where it is used

  • CommaView — CommaView uses openpilot to render the driving screen or its own overlay and show driving data like speed, speed limit, lead vehicle, and lane changes. This is a shipped feature in its Live View. Source

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HN mentions by year157 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-11-30 18:35:15 UTC to 2026-08-17 01:32:01 UTC.

01020302016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 17 mentions; 3 submissions, 14 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 18 mentions; 0 submissions, 18 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 18 mentions; 1 submissions, 17 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 33 mentions; 1 submissions, 32 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 22 mentions; 5 submissions, 17 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 1 submissions, 8 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 3 submissions, 6 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 1 submissions, 11 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC17314
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC909
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC18018
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC18117
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC33132
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC22517
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC918
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC936
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC12111
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606

What Hacker News says

33 sources
amatzner·Dec 2, 2020
comma.ai | San Diego | Navigation Engineer+Designer/Software Engineers/Safety Engineer/Full Stack | ALL FULL-TIME | ONSITE ONLY comma is a profitable company solving self driving cars while delivering shippable intermediaries. Think Tesla Autopilot, but for existing cars (Hondas, Toyotas, etc). See our open source driving agent on GitHub: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgAbfr42oI8 We're hiring: * Software engineers to develop openpilot through new features, simulation, and testing infrastructure. * Navigation Designer, can you build a Waze like app people will use? Then reimagine it combined with openpilot. Know QT5 or have similar SDK experience. * Also hiring a Full Stack Engineer, an Office/Operations Manager, and a Safety Engineer. Our stack is largely Python, with some C/C++ and J
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S(React) Interview Process (roughly): Coding challenge, 2 phone screens, and a paid micro-internship on site. https://www.comma.ai/jobs for more detailed job descriptions. * Reach out with a GitHub/LinkedIn to alex@comma.ai
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)
amatzner·Nov 2, 2020
comma.ai | San Diego | Software Engineers/Safety Engineer/ML/Full Stack/Navigation Designer | ALL FULL-TIME | ONSITE ONLY comma is a profitable company solving self driving cars while delivering shippable intermediaries. Think Tesla Autopilot, but aftermarket, for existing cars (Hondas, Toyotas, etc). See our open source driving agent on GitHub: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgAbfr42oI8 We're hiring: * Software engineers to develop openpilot through new features, simulation, and testing infrastructure. * A Machine Learning Engineer to build tools to track, analyze, and fix failures of the driving system as well as work on our automatic ground truthing and ML pipeline. * Navigation Designer, can you build a Waze like app people will use? Then reimagine it combined with openpilot. Know
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QT5 or have similar SDK experience. * Also hiring a Full Stack Engineer, an Office/Operations Manager, and a Safety Engineer. Our stack is largely Python, with some C/C++ and JS(React) Interview Process (roughly): Coding challenge, 2 phone screens, and a paid micro-internship on site. https://www.comma.ai/jobs for more detailed job descriptions. * Reach out with a GitHub/LinkedIn to alex@comma.ai
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)
DoingIsLearning·Oct 16, 2020
Thanks jmiskovic, I stand corrected: > openpilot is developed in good faith to be compliant with FMVSS requirements and to follow industry standards of safety for Level 2 Driver Assistance Systems. In particular, we observe ISO26262 guidelines, including those from pertinent documents released by NHTSA. In addition, we impose strict coding guidelines (like MISRA C : 2012) on parts of openpilot that are safety relevant. We also perform software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop and in-vehicle tests before each software release. [0] I would be quite curious to see how they perform HIL tests and in-vehicle tests and if those results are also public? [0] https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/master/SAFETY.md Edit: I cannot edit or remove the grandparent comment but I leave here this correction
In We Tested Comma AI's OpenPilot
VirtuallyChris·Oct 1, 2020
comma.ai | San Diego | Software Engineers/Safety Engineer/ML/Full Stack/Navigation Designer | ALL FULL-TIME | ONSITE ONLY comma is a profitable company solving self driving cars while delivering shippable intermediaries. Think Tesla Autopilot, but aftermarket, for existing cars (Hondas, Toyotas, etc). See our open source driving agent on GitHub: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgAbfr42oI8 We're hiring: * Software engineers to develop openpilot through new features, simulation, and testing infrastructure. * A Machine Learning Engineer to build tools to track, analyze, and fix failures of the driving system as well as work on our automatic ground truthing and ML pipeline. * Navigation Designer, can you build a Waze like app people will use? Then reimagine it combined with openpilot. Know
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QT5 or have similar SDK experience. * Also hiring a Full Stack Engineer, an Office Assistant, and a Safety Engineer. Our stack is largely Python, with some C/C++ and JS(React) Interview Process (roughly): Coding challenge, 2 phone screens, and a paid micro-internship on site. https://www.comma.ai/jobs for more detailed job descriptions. * Reach out with a GitHub/LinkedIn to givemeajob@comma.ai
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
amatzner·Sep 3, 2020
comma.ai | San Diego | Software Engineers/Safety Engineer/ML/Full Stack/Navigation Designer | ALL FULL-TIME | ONSITE ONLY comma is a profitable company solving self driving cars while delivering shippable intermediaries. Think Tesla Autopilot, but aftermarket, for existing cars (Hondas, Toyotas, etc). See our open source driving agent on GitHub: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgAbfr42oI8 We're hiring: * Software engineers to develop openpilot through new features, simulation, and testing infrastructure. * A Machine Learning Engineer to build tools to track, analyze, and fix failures of the driving system as well as work on our automatic ground truthing and ML pipeline. * Navigation Designer, can you build a Waze like app people will use? Then reimagine it combined with openpilot. Know
Read the rest
QT5 or have similar SDK experience. * Also hiring a Full Stack Engineer, an Office Assistant, and a Safety Engineer. Our stack is largely Python, with some C/C++ and JS(React) Interview Process (roughly): Coding challenge, 2 phone screens, and a paid micro-internship on site. https://www.comma.ai/jobs for more detailed job descriptions. * Reach out with a GitHub/LinkedIn to givemeajob@comma.ai
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)
amatzner·Aug 3, 2020
comma.ai | San Diego & Rotterdam | Navigation Designer/Full Stack Engineer/Safety Engineer/ML | FULL-TIME | ONSITE comma is a profitable company solving self driving cars while delivering shippable intermediaries. Think Tesla’s Autopilot, but aftermarket, for existing cars (Hondas, Toyotas, etc). See our open source driving agent on GitHub: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgAbfr42oI8 We're hiring: * A Navigation Designer, can you build a Waze-like app people will use? Do you know QT5 or have similar SDk experience? * A Full Stack Engineer to own our API and comma connect apps for iOS and Android (Fluent in Python and React) * Software Engineers to develop openpilot through new features, simulation, and testing infrastructure. * A Machine Learning Engineer to build tools to track, analyz
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e, and fix failures of the driving system as well as work on our automatic ground truthing and ML pipeline. * Also hiring a Safety Engineer and an Office Manager. Reach out with a GitHub/LinkedIn to givemeajob@comma.ai. Our stack is largely Python, with some C/C++ and JS(React) Interview Process (roughly): Coding challenge, 2 phone screens, and a paid micro-internship on site. https://www.comma.ai/jobs for more detailed job descriptions.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)
amatzner·Jul 1, 2020
comma.ai | San Diego | Software Engineers/Safety Engineer/ML/FS/Navigation Designer | FULL-TIME | ONSITE comma is a profitable company solving self driving cars while delivering shippable intermediaries. Think Tesla’s Autopilot, but aftermarket, for existing cars (Hondas, Toyotas, etc). See our open source driving agent on GitHub: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgAbfr42oI8 We're hiring: * Software engineers to develop openpilot through new features, simulation, and testing infrastructure. * A Machine Learning Engineer to build tools to track, analyze, and fix failures of the driving system as well as work on our automatic ground truthing and ML pipeline. * Also hiring a Safety Engineer, Navigation Designer, a Full Stack Engineer, and an Operations Assistant. Reach out with a GitHub/Lin
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kedIn to givemeajob@comma.ai. Our stack is largely Python, with some C/C++ and JS(React) Interview Process (roughly): Coding challenge, 2 phone screens, and a paid micro-internship on site. https://www.comma.ai/jobs for more detailed job descriptions.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)
vivcomma·Jun 1, 2020
comma.ai | engineers | San Diego | onsite | full-time We have an open source driving agent: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot Unlike most other companies in the self driving car space, we are profitable and have 1000s of daily active users. Search "openpilot" on YouTube to see some of them. We're looking for a software engineer to develop openpilot, an ML Engineer / Data Scientist, a Safety Engineer, an Infrastructure Engineer, an office manager, and a Navigation Designer. Go to https://comma.ai/jobs for more information on the positions and requirements. Reach out with a GitHub/LinkedIn to givemeajob@comma.ai and we'll get back to you within 24 hours.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)
VirtuallyChris·Jun 1, 2020
comma.ai | engineers | San Diego | onsite | full-time We have an open source driving agent: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot It does this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgAbfr42oI8 We're looking for: A Software Engineer to develop openpilot through new features, code optimization and car ports. A Machine Learning Engineer to build tools to track, analyze and fix failures of the driving system as well as work on our automatic ground truthing and ML pipeline. A Safety Engineer to design tests and write safety code for new car makes. A Infrastructure Engineer to work on tooling, regression tests, and our driving simulator. A Navigation Designer to build navigate on openpilot and create the user experience. Reach out with a GitHub/LinkedIn to givemeajob@comma.ai.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)
vivcomma·May 1, 2020
comma.ai | engineers | San Diego | onsite | full-time We have an open source driving agent: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot Unlike most other companies in the self driving car space, we are profitable and have 1000s of daily active users. Search "openpilot" on YouTube to see some of them. We're looking for a software engineer to develop openpilot, an ML Engineer / Data Scientist, a Safety Engineer, an Infrastructure Engineer, and a Navigation Designer. Go to https://comma.ai/jobs for more information on the positions and requirements. Reach out with a GitHub/LinkedIn to givemeajob@comma.ai and we'll get back to you within 24 hours.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)

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