Apple Has Dozens of Engineers Working on Car Operating System in Canada

[jjduru]

"Apple has two dozen former BlackBerry QNX"

Looks like the American side of macrumors editorial team feels really apprehensive to lose the base 12 numbering system.

Try this: 24 former Blackberry QNX engineers. The magical number is 24. It's an integer.

 

[Bone Ranger]

With the inherent safety of a self driving car, regulators will be relaxing the safety standards.
No more bumpers or seat-belts or safety glass, speed limits. Designers will have limitless freedom. Thousands of electric car manufacturers will be in business.
In a few years, people will be designing their own cars and 3D printing them.

Download APPLE CAR-OS and off you go.

 

[SBlue1]

Kinda how the smartphone market was dead in 2006 and apple was too late to the feature phone market?

The smartphone market was not dead. The 2006 smartphones were for business people only. Then came Apple and got into the phone market, the mass market the normal people were.

The car market is a mass market already. Its not like Apple can make a flying car and everybody will be like "Hey I will ditch my old world car and buy a new Apple car every two years!"

 

[Floris]

The smartphone market was not dead. The 2006 smartphones were for business people only. Then came Apple and got into the phone market, the mass market the normal people were.

The car market is a mass market already. Its not like Apple can make a flying car and everybody will be like "Hey I will ditch my old world car and buy a new Apple car every two years!"

A perspective, and fair enough.

 

[wizard]

Pretty awesome that an OS is being made to interface with a car
This certainly isn't ms-dos / unix CLI anymore

QNX is a very very old operating system. Of course in this case Apple will be developing something entirely new but QNX has been one of the more respected realtime operating systems out there.
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"Apple has two dozen former BlackBerry QNX"

Looks like the American side of macrumors editorial team feels really apprehensive to lose the base 12 numbering system.

Try this: 24 former Blackberry QNX engineers. The magical number is 24. It's an integer.

So too is two and a dozen is just another number like twelve. As for the editorial teams feelings I really doubt that you have a grasp on what they are feeling. Beyond that MacRumors apparently has at least some standards when it comes to editorial quality and article readability - at least compared to the competition.

 

[ZZ9pluralZalpha]

Bloomberg probably just found the team that helps carmakers with CarPlay host design/integration.

 

[wizard]

With the inherent safety of a self driving car, regulators will be relaxing the safety standards.

There is no evidence what so ever that self driving cars are inherently safer. It is already pretty obvious that they can screw up as easily as a human operator. Beyond that i'm not convinced of viability in anything other than optimal conditions, I wouldn't have any faith whatsoever isn a self driving car handling driving in a snow storm.

No more bumpers or seat-belts or safety glass, speed limits. Designers will have limitless freedom. Thousands of electric car manufacturers will be in business.

Occupant safety will not go down the drain just because there is a computer in the car.

In a few years, people will be designing their own cars and 3D printing them.

Not unless you are rich enough to buy the hardware required to print a car. That is a lot of capital and frankly it would be a tough business to offer to consumers. Mainly because we have a long ways to go before 3D printing is cost effective against other manufacturing methods.

That being said there are niches where 3D printing is already finding its way into the hotrod industry so one day maybe.

Download APPLE CAR-OS and off you go.

That will never happen. For one the government will be involved and even is by chance Apple tried to offer downloads you would have regulators trying to ban it. Just like they are trying to ban performance software right now. Frankly I wouldn't be surprised to see validation requirements as stringent as the medial industry suffers through.

Validation and frankly the liability that comes with this sort of software is something Apple isn't familiar with. It is a massive undertaking to prove an operating system and to validate installation for each platform it is installed upon. Further is Apple makes a mistake (just a single one) the ambulance chasers will be all over them like flies on sh3t. There is a lot of talk in these forums about lawyers going after Apple for all sorts of silly things but the automobile industry has an even longer and ongoing history of having every little mistake exposed to the world through the courts.

 

[jjduru]

QNX is a very very old operating system. Of course in this case Apple will be developing something entirely new but QNX has been one of the more respected realtime operating systems out there.
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So too is two and a dozen is just another number like twelve. As for the editorial teams feelings I really doubt that you have a grasp on what they are feeling. Beyond that MacRumors apparently has at least some standards when it comes to editorial quality and article readability - at least compared to the competition.

One of the most useless replies.

 

[SBlue1]

With the inherent safety of a self driving car, regulators will be relaxing the safety standards.
No more bumpers or seat-belts or safety glass, speed limits. Designers will have limitless freedom.

As long as there is one car left on the road that is human driven and can crash into you your car will need bumpers and seat belts too. So yeah your dream will just stay a dream.

You remind me of the magazines from the fifties where people thought we will have nuclear powered planes and flying cars by the seventies! LOL

 

[belltree]

I wonder if the iMac and Mac Mini will get similar OLED strips on them....

 

[Floris]

I wonder if the iMac and Mac Mini will get similar OLED strips on them....

Do you think instead of that, they will have a magic keyboard update that will include it?

 

[username:]

this is a waste of time. Cars will never be self-driving, just as trains, planes and ships never have and never will be. You don't get a much simpler vehicle than a train, yet we can't automate those, so we will never automate cars either. Hope this is just a rumour. An electric car would be a much better investment.
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Wow, more and more evidence of the lack of vision, leadership, and focus.

You need to look up the definition of "evidence"
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With the present failures of iCloud, imagine how people will feel when their auto electronics from Apple, start failing?

Well at least it wouldn't explode

 

[patent10021]

Apple sees foreign countries as growth targets. Particularly India and China.
Apple works on a car OS.
Apple invests a billion dollars into DiDi Chuxing.
China is the most populated country in the world.

Open your eyes.

I was just going to post this. Uber is DiDi's bitch. Apple is smart as f_ck. The party has just started.

 

[ikky]

Is this a joke? Have you never been outside Murrica?? There's automated trains all over the world.

this is a waste of time. Cars will never be self-driving, just as trains, planes and ships never have and never will be. You don't get a much simpler vehicle than a train, yet we can't automate those, so we will never automate cars either. Hope this is just a rumour. An electric car would be a much better investment.
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You need to look up the definition of "evidence"
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Well at least it wouldn't explode

 

[username:]

Is this a joke? Have you never been outside Murrica?? There's automated trains all over the world.

I don't live in America. Yes of course there are automated trains and they are becoming more common but they are not the majority by a long way. All automated trains run on tracks made inaccessible to outsiders and constantly monitored for obstacles. That is impossible for roads.

How do automated cars pass the ethics test? If someone is killed by automated car, who is at fault? And how does a programmer design the software to avoid a collision? Drive off the road? Kill the inhabitants or kill the kid who ran onto the road ? Will all road have to be fenced off? Never going to happen.

 

[ikky]

I don't live in America. Yes of course there are automated trains and they are becoming more common but they are not the majority by a long way. All automated trains run on tracks made inaccessible to outsiders and constantly monitored for obstacles. That is impossible for roads.

How do automated cars pass the ethics test? If someone is killed by automated car, who is at fault? And how does a programmer design the software to avoid a collision? Drive off the road? Kill the inhabitants or kill the kid who ran onto the road ? Will all road have to be fenced off? Never going to happen.

But you clearly said "Cars will never be self-driving, just as trains, planes and ships never have and never will be."

LOLOL

 

[SBlue1]

He is still right. Trains, planes and ships will never be self driven. Not in your, my or my kids lifetime. Period. The handful of self driven subways and light rail trains don't count. They have guarded and separated, fenced, elevated or underground tracks that can't be blocked or crossed. There will never be a self driving regular train. There is just too much that can go wrong.

 

[ikky]

He is still right. Trains, planes and ships will never be self driven. Not in your, my or my kids lifetime. Period. The handful of self driven subways and light rail trains don't count. They have guarded and separated, fenced, elevated or underground tracks that can't be blocked or crossed. There will never be a self driving regular train. There is just too much that can go wrong.

There's plenty of automated LRTs that run right on the same street and enter/exit the same intersections as cars. Fully automated. Anyways, his original point, the one I originally responded two, unequivocally stated trains will never be automated. And I clearly showed they are, which he conceded in his response. You can't change your point after someone has already responded to you to include fences, separations, etc. without conceding part of your argument.