Apple Car's Rumored 2020 Launch Target May Have Slipped to 2021

[maxsix]

Apple has already met its goal of drawing even more attention to themselves. The car is inconsequential.

 

[CFreymarc]

Here is a story about an autonomous Uber car driving down the wrong way of a one way street during a test in the US.

Sounds like fun, I sounds like it took a while for the human back-up driver to figure out what was going on.

Eventually, civil courts will have their say on the liability of self driving cars. My take is that we will see a civil court ruling that will stifle most of the self driving car market for a generation. I do not expect to see self driving cars as a standard feature for the next twenty years.

 

[au003]

The question is, will it have a headphone jack?

 

[derbladerunner]

Well, cold water on an actual Apple car coming from this article:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...aled-back-its-titanic-plan-to-take-on-detroit

As most of you readers and Apple followers certainly know, the author (Mark Gurman) got many Apple scoops right while working for 9to5Mac before joining Bloomberg.

I therefore take this more seriously than the usual rumor mill talk.

Even if it's all true, this article (or rather Apple's new strategy described in the article) doesn't make sense to me.

I don't see how and why Apple would introduce a software-only solution put into other cars beyond the current CarPlay option.

Creating autonomous drive systems sounds like a role for a large auto supplier, not very Apple-like.
In fact, it's the complete opposite of what Apple usually does, i.e. design and sell the entire widget (hardware, software and services...).

I guess we will only know in 12-18 months.