26-year-old hacker gets 3M for self-driving car startup

George Hotz is the founder of Comma.ai, an autonomous driving startup that's roughly six months old. On Monday, top VC firm Andreessen Horowitz announced a 3.1 million investment in the company. Comma.ai is working on a kit that will make it possible to turn regular vehicles into semi-autonomous ones. In October, Hotz purchased a 2016 Acura ILX, cameras and GoPro mounts and started developing the technology out of his San Francisco garage. The goal is to bring the kit -- both computer vision software and the cameras -- to market for less than 1,000 a pop before the end of 2016.