Ex-Ford engineer builds driverless car in his garage in 100 days | Hard Reset

About the video: $20,000, 100 days, no job, 1 garage. This family built a self-driving car during the pandemic. Now, they’re starting a company.

NiFT’s origin story is just one example of the current step change in the level of industry that can happen at home: The latest industrial revolution is empowering at-home engineers to craft revolutionary tech. With 2-day home delivery of parts and a wealth of how-to YouTube videos, genius is being created in garages across the US.

The idea of building a self-driving car at home would’ve been unthinkable just 10 years ago, but founder Shane, a former Ford engineer, decided he needed a project to keep busy during the pandemic. He enlisted his kids to build one in his Canton, Michigan garage in just 100 days. By day 9 they had already created a drivable vehicle.

Now, they’re building a flying ATV. Here’s the hidden technology making these DIY projects possible.

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[Tony-opxf]

“Rebuild the world from scratch” with the help of amazon and YouTube. 😂😂😂

[cinematicbranding]

An incredible family with an amazing vision and work ethic. It's been inspiring to see what they've accomplished. Can't wait to see where NiFT goes from here!

[RanmaSyaoranSaotome]

This makes me think that giant corporations and mega-landlords who are buying up vast swathes of properties and thus preventing the average person from purchasing their own home or having a garage to tinker in, are just finding yet another way to cripple the small inventor and allow patents only into the pockets of big-business shareholders.

[xm_mx]

Glad to see the spirit of invention is still alive in the US! All starting from a garage!

[Openwounds]

Your narration is so cozy. Feels like a much-needed hug. Love your videos

[DamiJegede]

The shuttle looks like a scene from the future to me. I would love to see that product come to life.

[buildacubesat]

This feels so relatable to me. I set out to build a CubeSat during the pandemic (but without any prior engineering knowledge in my case) and I'm still trucking along :) All the best to Shane and his company!

[gizer]

Without trying to ruin their effort, building an autonomous car is not that hard. Building a SAFE autonomous car is the hard part. Reliability in all the conditions and Functional Safety to start and then you have the issue of industrialization the product. Not everything is building the Proof of concept.

[ExopMan]

Saying his self-driving car "works" is a little misleading. I think the past ten years have shown that it's easy to make something that works in a parking lot or is "90% good on the road" it's that last 10% or 1% of driving competency and situational awareness that makes self-driving cars so difficult.

[corneliusquayson]

I was literally served a drone ad at the point where you were talking about the 4D dron thingy

[RjhnlyNm]

So finally someone built all those cars from an architecture renditions for an "advanced futuristic" cities 🤣🤣🤣

[Tony-opxf]

Keep up the good work. We appreciate the exposure and inspiration nonetheless!!!

[kumardigvijaymishra]

Great ideas and equally good implementation. For drone/VTV, it's good to include some sort of emergency ejection mechanism.

[AndrewMorris-wzvq]

Awesome to see! That classic industrious spirit plus what is really trillions of just accessible capital that is open source and the creative content from the communities around them really is impossibly powerful stuff!

I hope they find out about comma 3 for the self driving bit too! Maybe they can leverage even more opensource tech and leap frog to a next milestone in some of their projects!

[Questioneverything]

Channels like this should be getting mr beast views.

[crippsuniverse]

Covid showed what the benefits of UBI could be.

[ygreq]

I was actually thinking all the time: Where do I know that guy from?

[cuhkbvr]

Hello, there is a technology that might improve your flying drone project. It is called the Supa-Stealth Pump/Fan and it is produced by New Fluid Technology on the Gold Coast, Australia.

[vivekpraseed]

They could have started with a used EV and comma(george hotz). There's tons of open source stuff, put out by almost all universities' phd departments, that work at the intersection of LLMs and robotics. Its easy to modify a car however one wants to say by equipping it with all sorts of sensors with all sorts of tools like CNC, laser cutters and whatnot. GPUs, SBCs etc are all available very cheaply. On the software side of things Linux and a lot of stuff on github can take care of it all

[gotboostit]

Mystery solved. LoL I knew you guys were up to something. Didn't know it was this >High<.