The full system,
built into your car.
Camera pods that look like they came with the car, a sealed brain under the driver's seat, and a co-driver that talks. Dashcam every day, live gauges on your phone, engine watch that warns before the check-engine light, track coaching, drift scoring, auto-edited highlights. Read-only, always.
From $6,000 · first year of Otto Co-Driver included · see the three kits →
Four parts, and only one of them is visible
Every unit ships fully loaded — dual-antenna GPS and vision-grade compute are standard, not upgrades. There is no crippled base model.
Camera pods, front and rear
Matte carbon PP-CF housings with a Sony low-light sensor and a cabin-facing status ring — REC · SENTRY · OFF, so nothing lit ever reflects in the glass. Glass-mounted on a primed bracket, cable exit hidden in the trim.
Two ways to get them: the race-style quick-release pod design that fits virtually any car, or housings modeled to your exact chassis so nothing looks aftermarket.
A sealed brain under the seat
Machined aluminum with a finned body, mounted under the driver's seat — out of the sun, a hand's reach from the OBD port and the fuse box. Sealed: under a seat is dusty, so there's nothing inside to pull dust in or clog.
Jetson-class compute doing continuous object tracking on about 20 watts. Heat pipes carry it into the finned shell, so the whole box is the heatsink, and a phase-change thermal buffer soaks up the spike from a hard session or a hot start. Industrial-temp storage. Works offline.
Dual-antenna positioning
True vehicle heading — which is the entire reason real, measured slip angle is possible at this price instead of motorsport-grade money. In every single unit, no upgrade tier.
It reads your car. It cannot write to it.
The CAN-FD tap is read-only. Otto takes in everything the car's modules share and pulls the diagnostics straight from the ECU — without ever writing to it. Your tune is untouchable, and there's nothing to flash and nothing for a dealer to find.
Machined aluminum. Hidden install. No compromises.
Built like a part, not a gadget — every decision here is one someone else would have cheaped out on.
Pods mount, cameras route, the box goes under the seat
Power comes from the fuse box, dashcam-style: two fuse taps and a ground bolt, nothing cut, fully reversible. OBD is data-only. Front pod cable drops down the A-pillar; the rear pod routes along the headliner. No visible wires, anywhere. The app self-tests the install — swapped taps are detected, harmless, and fixed in a minute.
- 1Front pod
Top of the windshield
A-pillar → kick panel → sill - 2Rear pod
Top of the rear glass
Headliner → B-pillar → sill - 3Fuse box
2 taps + ground
Nothing cut · fully reversible - 4OBD-II
Under the dash
Data only · read-only - 5The box.
Under the driver's seat
Out of the sun · service loop for the seat rails
Just plug it in
Every box ships with a 12V socket cord. Power the whole system the afternoon it arrives — drive it, fall in love, hardwire later. (Socket power skips watch mode; the app nags gently.)
Two fuse taps + one bolt
The app shows a photo of your car's fuse box: "Pull F52, plug in RED." Pre-crimped taps, correct fuse format, included puller. About an hour, first time.
Pro install, one tap
Not a wrench person? One button books the installer network — hardwire, pods, cable routing, done in an afternoon. $500–900 depending on the car.
Where the watts go — and where they don't
Passive-first thermal design and true zero draw when parked. Ignition-sensed power, supercap shutdown, low-voltage cutoff. Leave it a month, the battery doesn't care.
~20–30 W
Full brain awake — vision, GNSS, logging. Heat pipes spread it across the finned body and it sheds all of it passively. No fan inside, no moving parts, nothing to clog.
0.0 W
Ignition sense cuts power. The supercap finishes writes (~10 s), then the unit is truly dark. Park it for a month — zero battery drain.
Parked in the sun
Key-off it's dark, so it only ever sits at cabin temperature. It boots light while the AC pulls the cabin down, then goes full power. Running hot? It drops the extras first — highlights, then camera frame rate — never the spotter, coaching or logging.
<1 W
Optional Sentry: a tiny wake circuit listens for shock or motion and boots the cameras only when something happens. Low-voltage cutoff always protects the battery.
It's a monster daily driver, not a track toy you bolt on twice a year
Every OTTO 1 does all of it — there's no crippled base model. Most of this happens on the commute, not on a Sunday at the circuit.
The co-driver
- Talks like a friend who happens to be a race engineer — you don't read Otto, you listen
- Live lap coach — delta to your best + where the time went
- Spotter — "car on your left… still there, blind spot"
- Cold-start guard — "two more minutes before you get into it"
- Drive-home debrief — the session, out loud, no laptop
- Route, hazard and green-wave memory — the pothole on your street, the corner where radar is always real, the pace that catches the next three greens
Cameras & Sentry
- Dashcam, always — incident auto-clip with telemetry attached
- Sentry wake circuit — parked, the box is dark; shock or motion wakes it and boots the cameras only when something happens
- Cabin camera — optional reaction cam for the passenger's face
- Telemetry-burned video — speed, gear, g-force in the frame
- Raw video never uploads — footage lives on the box and syncs to your phone over your own Wi-Fi. Only the clips you export leave the car
Health & the boring-but-expensive stuff
- Fault codes read straight off the car, in plain English
- Pre-code trends — "fuel trims up 3 drives straight" before anything throws a light
- Health scoring — one number per car, and what moved it
- Trip and mileage history — business/personal in one tap, IRS-ready export
- Valet & teen mode — caps the fun, logs everything
The car nerd stuff
- Virtual dyno — estimated wheel power from real pulls
- Tune A/B — did that flash actually do anything? Proof.
- Real drift scoring — measured slip angle, hold, combo
- 0–60 / ¼ mile / rolls — GPS-timed, weather-corrected
- Auto highlight reel — best lap, biggest drift, cut and ready to post before you're out of the paddock
Your car has CarPlay. Otto lives on it.
Most OTTO 1 cars already have a great screen in the dash. Otto uses it — no extra display to buy — and the same car you drive to work is ready the day you take it to the track. The data comes from the box (25 Hz GNSS, the CAN bus, the cameras); CarPlay is just where you see it.
Voice through your speakers Every OTTO 1
The coaching, the spotter and the radar calls come through the car's own speakers over CarPlay — or your earbuds or helmet. At speed, this is the part you actually use.
Live card on the Dashboard Every OTTO 1
A live card on the CarPlay Dashboard: lap, last lap and delta at the track; trip, car health and radar status on the street. Plus a small widget for your last session.
The full track screen Needs Apple's approval
The screen on the left: live track map, your position, braking points and your delta, drawn full-size on the CarPlay display. Apple only lets navigation apps draw their own screen, so this ships as Otto's circuit guidance once Apple approves it.
Cues in the cluster and HUD Needs Apple's approval · car-dependent
Short calls like "T1 · brake · 3 board" in your instrument cluster or head-up display, the same way turn-by-turn directions show there. Whether a car shows them is the carmaker's choice — we'll list the cars we've tested.
No CarPlay? Otto runs on your phone, or add the 7″ OTTO 1 Display. Android Auto is planned on the same model. Track map: Circuit of the Americas, © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Your detector beeps. Otto tells you what's happening.
Plug in a Valentine One Gen2 and the beeping stops being a puzzle. Direction, strength, real or false — spoken, in the moment. This is running live right now:
01Direction and trend, out loud
Ahead or behind, ramping or fading — you hear the shape of the threat, not just a tone. Eyes stay on the road.
02Learns your false alerts
The drugstore door that fires K-band every single day gets muted after a few passes. When Otto speaks up, it means something.
03Remembers where it's real
The corner where it's always real gets logged. Next time you get the heads-up before the detector fires.
04Your detector, your call
Otto integrates a detector you own — it doesn't include one. Detector legality varies by state.
Where Otto lives when you're not driving
Not a video, not a screenshot deck — the actual owner app, seeded with a full dataset, open in your browser. A real multi-car garage: drives, dashcam clips, drift scores, engine health, trip logs, and the co-driver chat that answers about the car you've got selected. Click through the owner app demo →
Fuel trims up 3 drives straight. Nothing's thrown yet — if it keeps climbing I'd look at the cyl-3 coil.
Three ways into the same kit
The brain, the harness and the full software are identical in every tier — the only thing that changes is how the pods are made. Target positioning; final pricing set after the first production run.
- Universal pod design — the same quick-release mounts our race kits use
- The brain, harness, full software — identical to every tier
- Fits virtually any car, ships immediately
- DIY install or installer network
- First year of Co-Driver included
- Camera housings designed for your exact car — the only chassis-specific part
- The brain, harness, full software
- DIY install or installer network
- First year of Co-Driver included
- Launch platforms: GT4 RS, M2/M3/M4, GR86/BRZ, Supra, Type R, Mustang GT
- Scanned + CAD'd to your exact interior
- Finish matched — the matte carbon signature
- White-glove install + shakedown session
- First year of Co-Driver included
- Exotics, race cars, one-offs
- 12 months free with any kit — a $540 value
- Live coaching, drift scoring, debriefs
- Auto-edited highlight reels
- Leaderboards, cloud telemetry, OTA updates
- ≈ one set of track tires per year
Box, cameras and subscription transfer to your next car.
The brain moves with you. The only per-car pieces are the pods, since they're built to disappear into that specific interior. New car, new pods, same Otto — and it remembers everything it learned about how you drive.
Running a daily alongside the fun car? Add TRACE on the OBD port for mileage, health and codes — $30 off with an OTTO 1 kit, then $5/mo per extra car. One account, one app, whole garage.
The questions everyone asks
01Does it void my warranty?+
02Will it work on my car?+
03How long is the install?+
04What happens to my data and footage?+
05What if I sell the car?+
06Do I need the subscription?+
07Is the radar detector included?+
08Does it work with CarPlay?+
09I live somewhere hot, or park outside. Is that a problem?+
Same brain, different mount
Everything runs the same Otto — the difference is where it rides and who it's working for.
OTTO · Paddock
Quick-release race kit that moves between cars. Live coaching on test days, silent record-only on race day, LTE video + timing to the pit wall.
TRACE.
A 30-second OBD install — no cameras. Automatic IRS-ready mileage logs, health & fault codes, teen & valet mode. No phone needed in the car.
TRACE · Fleet
Live GPS and geofences, evidence-grade trip reports for damage disputes, overdue-return flags, fleet health.
The first builds go to people who were here early
No deposit, no card. Just tell us what you drive — the launch chassis is decided by who's on the list.
Get in before the first platform is chosen
The launch chassis is picked by demand, so the earliest names genuinely shape what gets built first. Founding builds are full price and first in line — what they come with is access, not a discount.
Price locked at today's
Your rate is held even as the kit gets more capable — and it will. No mid-build increases.
A direct line
You talk to the person building it. Feature requests from founding cars go to the top of the list.
Your car in the story
Founding builds get documented — the install, the first laps, the footage. Your car is part of how this launches.
First platform vote
Tell us the chassis. Enough interest in one car moves it to the front of the queue.
Where it stands: car zero — a 2018 M2 — is being built right now. First pods, first box, first laps, filmed end to end. Which chassis gets the first platform kit is decided by who's on this list.
Get on the founding list
No deposit, no card. Tell us what you drive — the launch chassis is decided by who's on the list.
The first install, the first laps, and the first corner Otto ever calls — all getting filmed. If you want on the list, now's the moment.