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Comma/openpilot Terms, Phrases & Acronyms

A glossary of 65+ terms, phrases, and acronyms used across the openpilot and Comma community.

Glossary

ACC

Adaptive Cruise Control

ADAS

Advanced Driver Assistance System

AOL

Always On Lateral

AP

Autopilot (Tesla-specific term)

AEB

Automatic Emergency Braking

ALC

Automatic Lane Centering or Automatic Lane Change

BSM

Blind Spot Monitoring

C2

Comma Two device

C3

Comma Three device

C3X

Comma Three X device

CEM

Conditional Experimental Mode

Clone

Unofficial openpilot-compatible device

DM

Driver Monitoring

DP

DragonPilot

DSU

Driver Support Unit (Toyota-specific). See also SDSU.

E2E

End-to-end machine learning approach

FCW

Forward Collision Warning

FP

FrogPilot

FSD

Full Self Driving (Tesla term)

Geo / GeoHot

George Hotz, Comma founder

HDA I/II

Highway Drive Assist (Hyundai-specific)

HKG

Hyundai / Kia / Genesis vehicle group

Jacob

Community nickname reference for Jacob Pfeifer

LA

Los Angeles model

LDW

Lane Departure Warning

LFA

Lane Follow Assist

LTA

Lane Trace Assist (Toyota-specific)

LKA

Lane Keep Assist

LKAS

Lane Keep Assist System

MADS

Modified Assistive Driving Safety

MPC

Model Predictive Control

MTSC

Map-based Turn Speed Control

NLP

New Lane Planner

NNFF

Neural Network FeedForward

NoA

Navigate on Autopilot (Tesla-specific)

NoO

Navigate on openpilot

OP

openpilot software

OPGM

openpilot for GM vehicles (by Nworby)

OPTK

openpilot Toolkit

OSM

OpenStreetMap

OTA

Over-the-air update

RCTA

Rear Cross Traffic Alert

RDM

Road Departure Mitigation (Honda-specific)

RSA

Road Sign Assist (Toyota-specific)

SCC

Smart Cruise Control

SDSU

Community-enhanced DSU

SLC

Speed Limit Control

SP

SunnyPilot

TACC

Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (Tesla-specific)

TSS

Toyota Safety Sense

UI

User Interface

UX

User Experience

VTSC

Vision-based Turn Speed Control

ZSS

Zorrobyte Steering Sensor

What Is a Fork?

A fork is a new independent project built from an existing codebase. In the openpilot ecosystem, forks like DragonPilot, SunnyPilot, and FrogPilot start from openpilot and add their own features, defaults, and tuning behavior.

SunnyPilot References