
Meet the 26-Year-Old Hacker Who Built a Self-Driving Car in His Garage
George Hotz, the hacker known for jailbreaking the first iPhone, claims he built a self-driving car in about a month, working alone in his San Francisco garage. Bloomberg's Ashlee Vance visits that garage to see the car and press Hotz on how a single person with off-the-shelf sensors and his own code could approach what Google and major automakers were pouring millions into. The film shows the vehicle in action on real streets, with Hotz narrating the hardware and software choices behind it, from cameras to the machine-learning approach he used to teach it to drive. Vance also gets Hotz talking about his path from the iPhone hack and a stint at Facebook to this project, and about his open skepticism toward the self-driving industry's timelines and secrecy. It is a short, interview-driven profile rather than a deep technical breakdown, built around one talkative subject and one road test.