Alex Roy is perhaps the most entertaining storyteller I know and should be the host of Top Gear alongside Chris Harris. George Hotz is also probably a lot smarter than me. However, what he's doing now is the easy part of the task of developing autonomous control systems. There are nearly 250 million cars on the road in America today, many piloted by yahoos in all manner of conditions and an autonomous system needs to be able to deal with that. So far I've not seen any evidence that Hotz's hubris and bravado have achieved that

Can George Hotz “Win” Self-Driving Cars? – The Drive
The Ferris Bueller of autonomous tech will not be stopped.