Not buying Tesla back in 2016.
Failing & giving up on a self driving car despite billions of dollars spent on the project.
Instead Timmy is cooking up the amazing camera control button.
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Apple Cancels Self-Driving Vehicle Testing Permit in California After Abandoning Car Project
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Failing & giving up on a self driving car despite billions of dollars spent on the project.
Instead Timmy is cooking up the amazing camera control button.
Well they hit the brakes very late.
Plus, why did they need to hit the brakes.
Apple had no excuse to not be able to prosper in this field.
I despise the electric vehicle my wife pushed us to buy. Going on a road trip with it turned 6 hours into 9 hours, having to wait in long lines at charging stations. I’m glad Apple is out of this game and reallocating resources. This vehicle would have been ridiculously expensive anyway, out of the price range for most of us mere mortals.
"But, but, but, there was never any proof Apple was building a car!"
"They hired countless engineers, bought a test track with test vehicles, and bought self-driving permits only to improve CarPlay!"
"It was only a $10 billion pet project with no product in mind."
- Naysayers
"They hired countless engineers, bought a test track with test vehicles, and bought self-driving permits only to improve CarPlay!"
"It was only a $10 billion pet project with no product in mind."
- Naysayers
They could do it and were on their way. But the recently imposed 100% tariff on EV cars manufactured in China (up from the previous 25%) killed it.
Tough to make a decent business case with that hanging over you.
Creating an Apple Car may have sealed Tim Cook's legacy almost just under at the level of Steve.
Apple Watch, AirPods, Vision Pro, Apple Car.
Apple Watch, AirPods, Vision Pro, Apple Car.
Knowing how to focus on the right things is an even better part of being a leader. Something Cook is sorely missing.
The whole EV market is crashing, the scam is about to catch up with everyone. There are some good reasons for EV such as city pollution but they’re are not net positive environmentally and not nearly as useful as an ICE vehicle. The battery fiasco is just about to truly start. They should go back to being a niche product without subsidies or quotas.
I understand they can walk and chew gum at the same time, but I’d really wish they’d put the focus squarely on their bread and butter products. Safari is almost unusable on iOS as of late. I’d like them to bring a street view to more cities in maps. Things like that.
yes.
Nope. Lidar is stupid. Lidar requires sensor fusion with vision. Sensor fusion increases latency and noise. Ambiguity increases and when that happens, which sensor do you trust? The answer is vision. Vision is contextually much more data rich than lidar. So it doesn't make sense to add lidar when you fall back to vision anyways.
Try FSD 12.5 and you can easily see vision only is superior
Yea it is a good thing the Apple car was cancelled.
Apple would never have recovered from even a few hundred bricked cars.
Imagine the car sitting in the garage, won't start, won't power up, won't move and Apple says take it to the closest Apple store.
Apple would never have recovered from even a few hundred bricked cars.
Imagine the car sitting in the garage, won't start, won't power up, won't move and Apple says take it to the closest Apple store.
When smaller compagnies like huawei and xiami can make cars, but not apple.
Apple is way too slow to do things
Apple is way too slow to do things
Apple couldn't even bother to update the AirPods Max after 4 years. No wonder they can't build a car.
I still believe. I really want a privacy focused car.
The car industry is disgusting & greedy. They price cars expensively & still steal TONS of data.
Might as well buy a Chinese car atp, at least they're cheap. Waiting on BYD hopefully.
The car industry is disgusting & greedy. They price cars expensively & still steal TONS of data.
Might as well buy a Chinese car atp, at least they're cheap. Waiting on BYD hopefully.
Everything you say almost holds only under ideal conditions for the cameras. Under many real world driving scenarios, cameras-only comes up short. That’s why additional data streams are necessary. Yes, fusion is more complex, but necessary given the implications of even partial failure in this case.
You are not going to get me to try “FSD” any time soon for one very simple reason. It still isn’t “Full Self Driving,” and it won’t be until Tesla is willing to undertake the liability while FSD is engaged. Hence my earlier “snake oil” reference. I’m not in the habit of paying extra for a feature only to be a guinea pig for a corporation.
Gotta love how they wasted billions on this but other products in their line up get completely ignored
Cook refusing to meet with Elon to acquire Tesla for pennies will go down as biggest Apple fumble.
Apple fumbled AI and EV, they are headed towards extinction, all they got on their hands are regressing products.
Short AAPL
Apple fumbled AI and EV, they are headed towards extinction, all they got on their hands are regressing products.
Short AAPL
Possible when Tesla was worth $50 to $60 billion but highly unlikely today when Tesla is worth nearly $700 billion.
Some considered Steve Jobs a "jerk" too.
Apple is a large company with lots of money and resources. They can be and are involved in several things at once. Spending time and money on "Apple Car" doesn't mean other things were completely ignored.
Not their style, but they should at least sell the intellectual property and research they created to another company so that some good can come out of it.
Apple needs to start developing a flying car, since the self-driving one didn't pan out...
LOL. FSD has been pending forever. Meanwhile existing Tesla vehicles are long overdue for refreshes.
Musk is good at hype. I will give him that.
I am not sure a single Apple employee is a good sample size although I like Scoble. He was less flattering on the robots though.