To start using openpilot in a car

To use openpilot in a car, you need four things:

1. Supported Device: a comma 3/3X, available at comma.ai/shop.
2. Software: The setup procedure for the comma 3/3X allows users to enter a URL for custom software. Use the URL openpilot.comma.ai to install the release version.
3. Supported Car: Ensure that you have one of the 275+ supported cars.
4. Car Harness: You will also need a car harness to connect your comma 3/3X to your car.

We have detailed instructions for how to install the harness and device in a car. Note that it's possible to run openpilot on other hardware, although it's not plug-and-play.

To start developing openpilot

openpilot is developed by comma and by users like you. We welcome both pull requests and issues on GitHub.

• Join the community Discord
• Check out the contributing docs
• Check out the openpilot tools
• Read about the development workflow
• Code documentation lives at https://docs.comma.ai
• Information about running openpilot lives on the community wiki

Want to get paid to work on openpilot? comma is hiring and offers lots of bounties for external contributors.

Safety and Testing

• openpilot observes ISO26262 guidelines, see SAFETY.md for more details.
• openpilot has software-in-the-loop tests that run on every commit.
• The code enforcing the safety model lives in panda and is written in C, see code rigor for more details.
• panda has software-in-the-loop safety tests.
• Internally, we have a hardware-in-the-loop Jenkins test suite that builds and unit tests the various processes.
• panda has additional hardware-in-the-loop tests.
• We run the latest openpilot in a testing closet containing 10 comma devices continuously replaying routes.