Apple Car Project Scaled Back and Delayed, Won't Feature Full Self-Driving Capabilities

[voy@ger]

In the name of traffic safety, overall costs (including environmental)
and deployability, it is best to downsize AVs. Might be a great opportunity
to bring a Next-Gen EV AV that manages to succeed where AV developers
as well as carmakers have so clearly failed to deliver.

 

[Tagbert]

In the name of traffic safety, overall costs (including environmental)
and deployability, it is best to downsize AVs. Might be a great opportunity
to bring a Next-Gen EV AV that manages to succeed where AV developers
as well as carmakers have so clearly failed to deliver.

Mitsubishi tried but there wen’t a lot of takers then. It’s hard to deescalate on size.

 

[voy@ger]

Mitsubishi tried but there wen’t a lot of takers then. It’s hard to deescalate on size.
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That's because most people have something against tiny to small cars.
They think they are unsafe, uncomfie and don't have the road presence
big - bigger - biggest SUVs offer them.

Well, one cannot do much about the last argument. But OEMs (not necessarily carmakers)
are able to incorporate safety and comfort (wheelbase) in a sleek-footprint vehicle by
getting rid of the conventional box / rectangular platform architecture.

 

[voy@ger]

Latest rumor, evidently: https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-car/
"Apple is now rumored to be working on a semi-autonomous self-driving vehicle that will be able to drive on its own on highways, but will require manual driving in emergency situations and when on city roads."

 

[Algr]

Latest rumor, evidently: https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-car/
"Apple is now rumored to be working on a semi-autonomous self-driving vehicle that will be able to drive on its own on highways, but will require manual driving in emergency situations and when on city roads."

Useless. Unless maybe the "manual driving" can be done by a human service over an internet connection.

 

[voy@ger]

Useless. Unless maybe the "manual driving" can be done by a human service over an internet connection.

That's not manual driving, now is it?

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Latest rumor, evidently: https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-car/
"Apple is now rumored to be working on a semi-autonomous self-driving vehicle that will be able to drive on its own on highways, but will require manual driving in emergency situations and when on city roads."

Literally, this is all I need out of a vehicle. My current car has Mobileye, does this well, and I wouldn’t consider getting a new car without it.

 

[voy@ger]

Perhaps Apple should take Kearney's report to heart:

Auto industry will miss climate goals by a wide mark, study says - Autoblog

The automotive industry is likely to miss climate goals by 75%, according to a study backed by electric vehicle makers Polestar and Rivian that was released on Wednesday.

www.autoblog.com

Important conclusions:
1. Without drastic change, the car industry will have squandered its theoretically allocated
CO2 budget already in 2035, overshooting it by 75% in 2050.

2. To stay on the +1,5-degree pathway for 2050, BEV’s share of sales should grow
from 6 percent now to close to 100 percent by 2032.

3. Another important step is doing something to reduce the CO2 footprint of producing the electric car itself,
which is 35 to 50 percent higher than for ICEs. The battery (27%) is mainly responsible for that difference,
together with steel and iron (16%) and aluminum (27%). The report stresses that this step is key and will create
bigger gains than just putting EVs on the road.

4. As steel, iron, and aluminum represent 40 to 60 percent of GHG emissions in passenger vehicle supply chains,
these industries must also change drastically.

 

[voy@ger]

Here THE 6 reasons why a self-driving iCar better not be some huge MPV or SUV:

 

[Algr]

The best thing we can do with cars isn't self driving or electric. It's eliminating the two-hour daily commute! So many neighborhoods are designed to make it impossible to do ANYTHING without a car. Walkable neighborhoods and work-from-home could improve both the natural environment, and the human one.

 

[voy@ger]

Better have a more space-efficient utilization of our road infrastructure.
The reportedly soon to arrive Apple car better be not some oversized
Bang & Olufsen styled SUV or MPV. Here is why.