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Comma 3X: Initial Impressions

About a week ago I bought a Comma 3X from comma.ai, based on seeing a bunch of quite glowing reviews of it (and other FSD systems) from a number of car and tech reviewers I trust. In particular, since Kate of Transport Evolved has one and also has the exact same car as mine (2019 Kia Niro EV EX Premium in Galaxy Blue) and speaks highly of it, I decided that this might be a useful thing for handling my ongoing driving anxiety and vertigo issues.

In particular, since Kate of Transport Evolved has one and also has the exact same car as mine (2019 Kia Niro EV EX Premium in Galaxy Blue) and speaks highly of it, I decided that this might be a useful thing for handling my ongoing driving anxiety and vertigo issues. As such it does require a car with an existing lane-keeping assistance system (which, you may recall, is the main reason I even upgraded to an EV to begin with, as my Mazda 3 didn’t have this feature), and the steering limits are subject to what the lanekeeping is capable of. It isn’t always clear how to make certain things come up, actually configuring it with stuff is really annoying (especially for its built-in mapping/navigation system, which currently involves a lot of copy-pasting API keys into a private-but-insecure web app), and there’s many piles of dialog boxes which group settings together with very little rhyme or reason.

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