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Mysterious Apple Car Spotted Roaming Bay Area Streets
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Its really simple. Streetview is tedious and cumbersome to navigate around. Flyover is quick to use but the resolution captured from the air is low. Solution: use car mounted LIDAR and cameras to increase Flyover resolution at ground level. No 'copycat' is needed.
Driverless cars...people will contrive to have accidents with them to claim insurance. Yobs will trash them, and throw things in their way just for fun. When in accidents, passengers will sue the manufacturers. The OS will crash or be hacked. So open to abuse. Difficult to see how they will have a place in regular driving conditions.
While Google Streetview is a bit of a gimmick it does have some value at looking around to get your bearings somewhere new, the real benefit to these camera cars is to get accurate local ground truth such as sign placements, speed information, point of interest locations etc. If Apple took on more data from OSM and combined with their existing data from TomTom and their own ground truth vehicles their maps could easily match the quality of Google.
A driverless car is a bit useless without accurate mapping and POI data so I very much doubt it's that. Apple can't go down that route until they resolve the above.
If this vehicle is for the Apple equivalent of street view, or even just for giving more accurate map data then they need to roll out fast and wide. I'm talking Europe, China, etc. It's not good keeping all the juicy features confined to the US. Apple is a global brand.
A relevant article perhaps? https://www.macrumors.com/2013/07/3...eam-with-new-regional-and-local-job-listings/
A driverless car is a bit useless without accurate mapping and POI data so I very much doubt it's that. Apple can't go down that route until they resolve the above.
If this vehicle is for the Apple equivalent of street view, or even just for giving more accurate map data then they need to roll out fast and wide. I'm talking Europe, China, etc. It's not good keeping all the juicy features confined to the US. Apple is a global brand.
A relevant article perhaps? https://www.macrumors.com/2013/07/3...eam-with-new-regional-and-local-job-listings/
All the above (apart from the hacking) already happens. Cars are open to abuse, and are abused regularly every day on every street. Human drivers are idiots who make roads unsafe and cause congestion by impatient driving. Given time and technology refinements it will be the erratic human drivers who will be most vulnerable to yobs and lawsuits.
Apple really needs to improve their map. I have a home in San Francisco and today I was driving down Geary Blvd and Apple Maps was telling to make a left where a left turn was not allowed. This happens to me a lot in S.F.
The same thing happens on Market Street downtown as well.
The same thing happens on Market Street downtown as well.
Yes of course, if they are "street mapping" then they definitely a super fast car..... This way they can take nice blurry pictures... Dodge Caravan would only shoot clear pictures - how boring...
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You'd be complaining about them wasting money on throwing cameras on a Porsche, let's be real here.
And if the battery dies, the entire car will be replaced as there is now way to replace the battery...
Yeah to me that feels like clutching at the clutchiest of straws. If Apple were involved they would just be a silent partner, the car itself wouldn't have been leased to them as surely that would breach the licence.
Well I don't believe apple sell my maps searches for a start which is kind of an improvement...
I actually meant literally - How can you have a partnership that allows you to do something without a partner?
Mobile Apple watch battery charger , with GPS option being tested.
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Actual battery life or that quoted by Apple?
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Actual battery life or that quoted by Apple?
"Competition is good... as long as you're not competing with Google".
There isn't a snowballs chance in hell I'm letting Google Maps battery draining, privacy invading, software near my iPhone. Apple maps works really well here and the interface and usability is miles ahead of Google's offering. The CarPlay integration is slick!
