Woah woah woah, even those of us who smoke realize that the prospect of a steering wheel-less car in 2025 is bonkers ?
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Apple Working Toward Fully Autonomous Car With No Steering Wheel or Pedals, Aiming to Launch in 2025
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Woah woah woah, even those of us who smoke realize that the prospect of a steering wheel-less car in 2025 is bonkers ?
Now, some people have asked why we would remove the steering wheel. It really comes down to one word: courage
What could possibly go wrong? LOL. Just ask Tesla how hard autonomous driving us. FSD *still* doesn't come remotely close to what's its name implies after *years* of beta testing (by paid customers!)
Got to have manual control if something goes wrong.
Too many difficulties. Would only work if every car on the road was automated and that's going to take a century.
Manual cars can hit your self driving vehicle either by accident or deliberately.
Software bugs will always exist too. The best GPS location we have today still wobbles all over the map sometimes. Operating systems still crash and always will.
The more automated vehicles and more robots that come into being the more incidents of attacks on machines. Some attacks for fun, some attacks out of anger.
Manual cars can hit your self driving vehicle either by accident or deliberately.
Software bugs will always exist too. The best GPS location we have today still wobbles all over the map sometimes. Operating systems still crash and always will.
The more automated vehicles and more robots that come into being the more incidents of attacks on machines. Some attacks for fun, some attacks out of anger.
Comparing this to CarPlay? Huh 
By the time this is safe to drive and actually accident free - well, sorry to say but you and me will be dead by then.
This is not happening and certainly not in 2025. Whoever thinks this is so close is crazy naive. Driving is mega complex thing with so many unique situations. This is probably 50 years away to be fully automated without human interaction.
Until then, there will be always some input from humans
By the time this is safe to drive and actually accident free - well, sorry to say but you and me will be dead by then.
This is not happening and certainly not in 2025. Whoever thinks this is so close is crazy naive. Driving is mega complex thing with so many unique situations. This is probably 50 years away to be fully automated without human interaction.
Until then, there will be always some input from humans
Me neither, but, if the target market is taxis and Uber/lyft etc, that would be different…
That just looks like a coffin with two seats, windows and a console.
This is an admirable goal for Apple, Tesla, and others, and but US regulators are not going to allow a car without a steering wheel in the foreseeable future. How far out will it be? 15 years? Obviously I can’t say, but it’s clearly not going to be happening by 2025.
Bah! I can't even get Siri to correctly execute commands 65-70% of the time!
You’re absolutely right — you’re not going to drive it. And you’re probably also not going to own it as many signs point to shared autonomous cars in the future. Can’t wait!
Apple needs to hire some people from the Northeast or Alaska to work on their project.....places where you get something called WINTER. Roads are snow-covered, ice-covered, slush-covered....no center or side lines are visible....near whiteouts from 1 inch per hour snow blowing sideways....fully autonomous cars won't be a "thing" here for decades.
I said the same thing about horseless carriages a long, long time ago, but I eventually came around and got one.
“Today, Apple reinvents the wheel.”
*cheering crowd*
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*cheering crowd*
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The perfect design was created years ago. AI, bullet proof, scratch proof, self drive, manual drive, boost control, turbo mode.
Don't mess with this design or you will go wrong.
Don't mess with this design or you will go wrong.
Wouldn't they need a steering wheel and pedals etc to be selling less technologically advanced car?? It's not like a MacBook Pro where you can just leave out a Face ID camera because you couldn't make it work on time.
I don't love the idea of a car with no user control to begin with, but what if you're driving to a place that isn't on a map (rural house with a long driveway, for instance)? I'm curious as to how that would work.
None of this may actually ship, but I do appreciate that Apple seems interested in Level 1 self-driving (Driver Assistance), and Level 4/5 self-driving (High/Full Driving Automation); given that all the levels in between are just asking for distracted drivers getting into accidents.
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That timeline seems really unrealistic.