Everything George Hotz Said About Self-Driving Cars

George Hotz on Self-Driving Cars — every major take compiled. From building a self-driving car in his garage to running the second-largest autonomous driving fleet after Tesla, here's what George Hotz (geohot) has said about self-driving cars, Tesla FSD, Waymo, lidar, and the future of autonomous driving — in his own words. Spanning ~2016 to 2025, across podcasts, interviews, livestreams, and presentations. 0:00 Origin story: "I'm going to buy a car and make it work" 0:55 The chair analogy: Waymo's rule-based failure 2:10 "Google is the Xerox PARC of self-driving" 3:16 "Driving is a psychology problem, not physics" 4:14 The lidar trap / Waymo inverse Moore's Law 6:39 "Level 4 is mostly a scam" 8:17 "Tesla sells = money, Waymo adds = loses money" 9:01 "Level 2 forever — it's all about liability" 10:14 $10 billion wasted on Cruise 11:56 "Waymo is fake launches until they go out of business" 13:14 "Self-driving will be solved by 20 geniuses" 14:27 "A self-driving car is not a car" 15:10 "I don't care about self-driving cars" 15:52 Fleet sizes: Comma vs Tesla comparison 17:26 "Started as an ego battle with Elon" 18:33 "Silicon Valley culture needs to die" Sources: Bloomberg Originals: Self-Driving Car in His Garage (   • Meet the 26-Year-Old Hacker Who Built a Se...  ) ReasonTV: Under $1,000 (   • Super Hacker George Hotz: I Can Make Your ...  ) ReasonTV: Self-Driving Cars Are a Scam (   • George Hotz: Fully Self-Driving Cars Are a...  ) Disruptive Investing: Future of Autonomy (   • George Hotz - Comma.ai The Future of Auton...  ) Dave Lee: Self-Driving Cars & Future of AI (   • George Hotz: Self-Driving Cars & the Futur...  ) Lex Fridman Podcast #132 (   • George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Lear...  ) Lex Fridman Podcast #387 (   • George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety...  ) George Hotz Livestream: Hiring & Zoox (   • comma ai | George Hotz | Hiring!!! (oh and...  ) George Hotz Livestream: Honesty on a Friday Night (   • comma ai | George Hotz | Honesty on a Frid...  ) COMMA CON 2025 (   • comma ai | COMMA CON 2025 | George Hotz | ...  )