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British Car Leasing Company Creates 'Apple Car' 3D Render Based on Patents

Glass top and suicide doors. I question the rigidity of that platform. This design is a non-starter for me. I want a solid car that won't flex when I take a hairpin curve at butt puckering speed.😑

Since it'll be self driving, that will be another mark against it in my book.
 
Maybe when they get macOS updates to run without issue I will trust their software engineering team to pilot a driverless car.
 
quatermass said:
Like Joe 90s car? I want it now!
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Oh yeah! I had one of those!
But the others, why does everything seem like it fell out a 60/70 sci-fi TV show. Perhaps we will need the string vests of UFO to go with it.

But back to the real world, whatever they make will have to pass many safety tests and will have to be built for those tests, side impacts, ped safety and so on.
 
Criticism:

Those seats look uncomfortable as hell, and I’m not confident they could pass crash safety standards. Seatbelts are not meant to hold passengers in lateral movements.

Coach doors are a safety concern as well. I haven’t seen those used for quite awhile.

The render has HORRIBLE aerodynamics. The car would funnel air below the chassis, reducing stability at high speed, And also the upward tapered rear creates a huge low pressure area, further reducing energy efficiency.

The body likely wouldn’t meet pedestrian safety standards or crash standards. Any objet that’s hit would be forced under the vehicle, and away from the crumple zones. Pedestrians would be forced under the wheels instead of onto the hood, basically guaranteed death.

The steering wheel looks uncomfortable as hell, who thought of this? Fire that moron.

The screen in the center of the wheel is useless when there’s a screen on the dashboard, and would be turned into shrapnel when the airbag deploys. This could be replaced by a single button on the wheel like every other car on the road.

Where do you put car seats?

Conclusion:
The people or person who designed this is braindead. Lacking in basic critical thinking, and should never design an automobile again.
 
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Looks like something I made out of Lego or Construx as a kid.

Those open doors are just asking to get blown away in the wind - or get taken out by a passing vehicle.
 
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Actually the more I look at this thing the more it pisses me off.

The glass roof has no shade meaning everything in the interior is going to get nuclear hot in sunlight, the seats headrest is a literal bar of (presumably) metal. There’s a useless dial in the center far away from the driver for presumably navigating the menu on the dash, when that function could easily be done by touch input or wheel controls. The rear has no low hatch so loading **** into the trunk would be a nightmare, assuming it has a hatch, and not just empty “cargo” space.
 
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MacRumors said:


British vehicle leasing company Vanarama has taken a stab at imagining what the first Apple Car could look like, taking inspiration from iPhones, MacBooks, and other Apple products, and combining them with real Apple patents to come up with a 3D concept render that can be explored inside and out.

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Article Link: British Car Leasing Company Creates 'Apple Car' 3D Render Based on Patents
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Looks like a futuristic car from the 1950s.
 
Apple has challenges with products with poor churn numbers. Products like TV, Speakers, Monitors, Routers, any product consumers keep longer than two years. The car has very low churn numbers. Ten plus years. I cannot see Apple DNA fitting into the Tesla market. One of my biggest concerns about the Tesla type products (software driven), long term support. Even if Apple built a car, will they support it for twenty years. Time will tell.
 
I drive an electric car and this prototype looks odd to me for several reasons:

1) the wide chunky wheels imply stronger grip to the road, so harder to tract, requiring more battery power;
2) three pedals, what for? all electric cars are automatic, so no clutches;
3) the front lights are too narrow to provide efficient lighting;
4) it is shaped like a boat, so less useful space for the boot and the battery;
5) the cockpit looks very complicated and un-Apple.
 
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Apple has challenges with products with poor churn numbers. Products like TV, Speakers, Monitors, Routers, any product consumers keep longer than two years. The car has very low churn numbers. Ten plus years. I cannot see Apple DNA fitting into the Tesla market. One of my biggest concerns about the Tesla type products (software driven), long term support. Even if Apple built a car, will they support it for twenty years. Time will tell.
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This, plus I fear what service will be like. Since Macs, iPads & iPhones have so many integrated, soldered and/or proprietary parts, I'd hate to see what an Apple car is like. What happens with regularly replaced items like oil, wheels, wiper blades? Can we change those ourselves with any 3rd party parts, or only Apple-branded or "Made for iCar" parts? Plus if we get into an accident, can we fix it ourselves, go to any mechanic, or only Apple dealerships? I'm just afraid of getting into a small fender bender, and told "Oops, sorry, that part's not replaceable. You have to buy a whole new car."

Plus, I'm not comfortable with solely autonomously-driving cars. I'd feel better if it had at least some user-control. Plus, I like "dumb" products. I'd like some modularity/customizability to it. Kinda of like TVs & BluRay players. Don't give me a TV with AirPlay, Netflix, Hulu, and all that. Just give me a few HDMI ports, maybe coaxial cable plug. Then let me add what I want. If that specific thing goes obsolete, I can update just that rather than the whole TV.
 
For anyone paying any attention whatsoever to this ********, here is one of Vanarama’s adverts from a couple of years back. Do any of you feel like this is their expertise and WTF is this so-called journalism site even reporting in it?

 
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darcyf said:
Not surprised in the least by all the snark coming out of the comments here (sometimes forget this is a gathering place for apple haters more than anything) but it’s fun to think of all the crow everyone here will be eating when everyone and their dog is lining up to buy one of these things. Ten years from now every surviving car manufacturer out there will be aping these concepts while apple dominates the market.
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So everyone will be either eating crow, or waiting in line with a dog, or being an ape? Maybe. I have no horse in this race.
 
darcyf said:
Not surprised in the least by all the snark coming out of the comments here (sometimes forget this is a gathering place for apple haters more than anything) but it’s fun to think of all the crow everyone here will be eating when everyone and their dog is lining up to buy one of these things. Ten years from now every surviving car manufacturer out there will be aping these concepts while apple dominates the market.
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The amount of confidence you have in something you haven’t even seen yet is astounding.
 
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No need for a steering wheel for emergency takeover… use your iPhone like 007, or maybe use an AR headset or glasses with eye tracking and steer the car where you look… (I’m only half joking…)
 
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This is a good design, and attractive car, but it would NEVER ride that high??? Far too much turbulence and efficiency loss for an electric car.
 
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Will those tires work in >0.25” snow?

Sincerely,
Indiana
 
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JoshuaBru said:
They should call it the Newton.
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Y’know, that’s not a half bad idea as long as that’s the name of Apple’s car brand and not a model. Lot’s of car manufacturers are named after people and this would be no exception. I could see it being something like the “Newton AC1” where the make is Newton and the model is AC1 for example.

Apple just doesn’t sound very… car brand-y if you catch my drift. But everyone would know the Newton brand would be Apple’s baby in a way.

The only downside to it is that Newton is kind of looked down upon in Apple’s history because of the device which bestowed that name did not really pan out and people would be using that against Apple to make fun of Apple’s car using the same name and hoping it too fails.
 
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