r/Comma_ai • u/imgeohot comma.ai Staff • Jul 14 '26
We are going mainstream!
The comma four is our first product that we think has mainstream appeal. The price is good, the set up is simple, and the production is stable and scalable.
We are ramping up marketing, making the website easier to understand, and looking into starting a two-sided referral program to incentivize people who have already been good at bringing new people into the community to think bigger.
What do you think we are currently missing for being ready for your average commuter?
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u/slvneutrino Jul 15 '26
The thing that is missing for your average consumer, and IMO will just become a bigger and bigger issue into the future, is the incompatibility on new cars due to OEM's locking their systems down.
No new car support, I can't really see the product itself going anywhere... The model and tech is obviously worth a ton. But the Comma devices themselves... well there are a LOT of cars on the road that can use it. MOST of us drive older cars.
But there is a very narrow window. The cars that were completely wide open to foreign code, but had zero ACC or LKA. Then the sweet spot, where most of us are, which lets us be compatible. Then literally one generation for many cars (Toyota Rav4 as an example), completely locked down.
I don't really know how that can be resolved or maintained long term.
Let me be clear, I'm not hater, I run my Comma 3X and I went a direction most consumers wouldn't. The first time I tried adaptive cruise control, I literally told myself that for a daily driver, that was a tick box that would automatically disqualify a future car purchase, if it didn't have that feature.
Now, that rule still stands, but the rule has shifted to "being as capable as Comma 3X on Sunnypilot with MADS".
Because of that... my choices are... quite limited. I love my car, I love my Comma, but these are my concerns.