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Apple Said to Be Considering Augmented Reality for Car Driving System
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I'm not smitten with the idea of AR in cars.
I don't want to see anything flashing up on my windscreen; too distracting.
As to this rumour: Apple used to say that if you want to do it right, you've got to make the hardware and the software. This is why CarPlay is a failure; it's like the Motorola Rockr.
I don't want to see anything flashing up on my windscreen; too distracting.
As to this rumour: Apple used to say that if you want to do it right, you've got to make the hardware and the software. This is why CarPlay is a failure; it's like the Motorola Rockr.
I hope the car has a touch bar so when it breaks down due to glitchy software, I can use the touch bar to send emojis to the towing company.
So because some idiot killed himself with an assisted steering car that is not built to be autonomous, you conclude that safe autonomous cars are a long way off?
I heard someone in my city (of 4 million) was killed in a car accident last night. I guess safe cars are a long way off in general.
I don't get it. Apparently Apple are going to build a Car Driving System but not an actual car to go with it. What's the point? The motor manufacturers are not going to let Apple take over their driving systems when they are all working on such systems themselves. Apple are going to be left with Car Driving System that nobody wants. It doesn't make any sense to me. If they were going to develop an Apple Car to go with it then I could see the point. Otherwise this is going to be a huge waste of money.
Close, but instead of pokemon, Apple's AR car will make you drive to pop-up Apple kiosks to collect dongles in rare limited edition colors that you buy with real money. Gotta catch 'em all....All the dongles that is.
I think your comment that the guy who died was an "idiot" is frankly disgusting.
I don't believe autonomous vehicles will ever become mainstream because most people will not feel sufficiently confident to let go of the steering wheel and let the car drive itself. People die every day on the roads and maybe statistically autonomous cars will be safer, but I would never trust the technology enough to let go of the steering wheel.
2017 - Releasing the Airpods
2018 - New iMac, 48% thinner
2019 - Reintroducing the MacBook Air, 39% thinner
2021 - New Mac Pro, more rounder
2023 - New MacBook Pro, 4 brand new ports, get your dongles!
2025 - Augmented Reality for Cars, it's magical!
Fjewww, that's a busy 10 years for Apple! Where will they find the time?
2018 - New iMac, 48% thinner
2019 - Reintroducing the MacBook Air, 39% thinner
2021 - New Mac Pro, more rounder
2023 - New MacBook Pro, 4 brand new ports, get your dongles!
2025 - Augmented Reality for Cars, it's magical!
Fjewww, that's a busy 10 years for Apple! Where will they find the time?
It's thought that Tesla will be showing a similar system at the Model 3 Part 3 event early next year, to be included with every Tesla starting a few weeks before they show it.
In the long run, it is pointless in an autonomous car. I think it'll be very important for the first few years though, when humans don't completely trust the autonomous car yet. It's like when a young driver tells their parent or driving instructor or the person administering a driving test about everything that they see and are reacting to. It'll be how the car communicates with you and lets you know that you don't need to yank the steering wheel or mash a pedal or anything - the car already sees whatever obstacle you're concerned that it doesn't see.
I also was going to point out that automotive AR is also called a HUD, and isn't new at all. Not saying Apple couldn't do it better, though.
True that we're lunging headlong into self-driving tech, but AR won't be obsolete as soon as you think. First, it's an excellent bridge til the kinks are worked out and society completely adopts self-driving cars, a long way off. Second, even when self-driving cars are commonplace, I'm sure regulations will require a human behind the wheel until the system (including roads) is mature, another long way off.
Apple doesn't need tech to last forever to stay relevant. iPods lasted 15 years. iPhones came out only 8 years ago. Whatever automotive AR tech they're working on could give them a good run.
Yep, because the car will automatically know when it needs to stop, no need for your feet to do it.
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apple should be good at augmented reality since thats what they have been living in lately....
I don't this is a VR vs AR question. While they have some over lapping features they primarily have different purposes. VR is fundamentally more of an entertainment experience and AR is more of a utility. Of course Apple is interested in the AR. The iPhone implications are staggering in number and even unimaginable at this point there are so much potential.
I wonder how long before Google Glasses emerges again?
I wonder how long before Google Glasses emerges again?
It's laughable to read as news that a product that never existed in the first place, now no longer exists. Talk about "augmented reality" — it explains the Apple Car rumor entirely. So is the non-augmented reality that an "Apple Car" was never more than a chat board wet dream finally sinking in? Somehow, I doubt it. It's the Terminator of Apple rumors.
Matt is a sympathetic person, I like his style.
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are looking at something along this line: navdy.com
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are looking at something along this line: navdy.comWe're talking about this guy, right: https://www.theguardian.com/technol...illed-autopilot-self-driving-car-harry-potter
The guy set the car's cruise control over the speed limit and watch watching Harry Potter on a portable DVD player when the car crashed into a tractor trailer.
If anything, my comment may have been offensive to idiots by grouping this guy in with them.
The driving assist system didn't recognize the white truck on a bright sky, but that's okay ... it's not an autopilot, it's a steering assist feature. The person using it to watch movies while he ignored the road got what he deserved and we should just be grateful it happened that way with no injuries to any innocent people.
As for actual autonomous vehicles...over 40,000 people die on roads in the US every year due to preventable driver error. The fact that people don't want to give control to a superior autonomous system shows just how stupid some people are. Google actually had to modify their self-driving car code to overbrake because when it braked properly, the passengers panicked and thought they were going too fast. Poor little primate brains don't deal well with objects travelling faster than things used to happen in the primeval jungles and humans are not evolved to properly handle a 3000 pound car travelling 65 miles per hour.
Until a little glitch in iOS causes it to not stop and you don't have a brake pedal backup.