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 →
Every unit ships fully loaded — dual-antenna GPS and vision-grade compute are standard, not upgrades. There is no crippled base model.
Matte carbon PP-CF housings with a Sony low-light sensor and a status ring — REC · SENTRY · OFF. Glass-mounted on a primed bracket, cable exit hidden in the trim.
Two ways to get them: the race-proven quick-release pod design that fits virtually any car, or housings modeled to your exact chassis so nothing looks aftermarket.
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: no fan, no dust.
Jetson-class compute doing continuous object tracking on about 20 watts, passively cooled. Industrial-temp storage. Works offline.
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.
The CAN-FD tap is wired listen-only. Otto listens the same way a code reader does — your tune is untouchable, and there's nothing to flash and nothing for a dealer to find.
Built like a part, not a gadget — every decision here is one someone else would have cheaped out on.
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.
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.)
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.
Not a wrench person? One button books the installer network — hardwire, pods, cable routing, done in an afternoon. $500–900 depending on the car.
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.
Full brain awake — vision, GNSS, logging. The finned body sheds all of it passively. No fan, no moving parts, nothing to clog or fail.
Ignition sense cuts power. The supercap finishes writes (~10 s), then the unit is truly dark. Park it for a month — zero battery drain.
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.
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.
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:
Ahead or behind, ramping or fading — you hear the shape of the threat, not just a tone. Eyes stay on the road.
The drugstore door that fires K-band every single day gets muted after a few passes. When Otto speaks up, it means something.
The corner where it's always real gets logged. Next time you get the heads-up before the detector fires.
Otto integrates a detector you own — it doesn't include one. Detector legality varies by state.
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.
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.
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.
Everything runs the same Otto — the difference is where it rides and who it's working for.
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.
A 30-second OBD install — no cameras. Automatic IRS-ready mileage logs, health & fault codes, teen & valet mode. No phone needed in the car.
Live GPS and geofences, evidence-grade trip reports for damage disputes, overdue-return flags, fleet health.
No deposit, no card. Just tell us what you drive — the launch chassis is decided by who's on the list.
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.
Your rate is held even as the kit gets more capable — and it will. No mid-build increases.
You talk to the person building it. Feature requests from founding cars go to the top of the list.
Founding builds get documented — the install, the first laps, the footage. Your car is part of how this launches.
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.
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.