I doubt it was meant in the way to say on every curve: "Go right ... go left ...", but simply something like: "Hey Siri, bring me to the theatre on Elm Street" and advanced self-driving car technology (which has not even arrived until today) doing the rest.
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Jony Ive Once Insisted on Apple Car Without a Steering Wheel
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I doubt it was meant in the way to say on every curve: "Go right ... go left ...", but simply something like: "Hey Siri, bring me to the theatre on Elm Street" and advanced self-driving car technology (which has not even arrived until today) doing the rest.
I’m surprised he would even allow it to have wheels and tires. Just levitate.
OMG! I would NOT want to put my life in the Hands of Siri! 
Half the time she starts playing music when I ask what the weather will be like. LOL. Project: Deathwish!
Half the time she starts playing music when I ask what the weather will be like. LOL. Project: Deathwish!Ives is nothing with a Jobs type to bring some sense into his designs. Like the first time they came out with a prototype iPhone and Jobs put it in his pocket with his keys and saw that it would scratch the glass. The design team came back with Gorilla Glass. But without Jobs, they'd have shipped without it. Just stuff like that.
It seems clear that Ive has never used Siri in real life.
Classic version spotted on Mecum Auto Auction last night....
Good thing it's consumer products and not air travel. Imagine if he insisted on no manual override flight controls for airplanes.
Well, doesn't that exactly and perfectly express what so many of us here have been saying about Jony Ive for so damn long!
Let's hope Apple can get back on track once this idiot is out of there.
Let's hope Apple can get back on track once this idiot is out of there.
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Automotive technology is nothing Ive should be touching. No way. A car without manual controls to over-ride the AI is just stupid. Until the infrastructure of our road system is modernized any vehicle interfacing with that system needs operator control. Cars can be deadly even in the best driver hands.
AI systems, supplemented by Siri, do sound nice. However the future of cars from the mouthpiece for "industrial design" is not something I would ever trust with my life to travel without manual controls as a primary analog control. No reset button on the life thing. That just iStupid.
AI systems, supplemented by Siri, do sound nice. However the future of cars from the mouthpiece for "industrial design" is not something I would ever trust with my life to travel without manual controls as a primary analog control. No reset button on the life thing. That just iStupid.
Add the shiny Pro wheel for just $10.000 or buy the $1.999 VESA mount for your own wheel.
Modeled after “apartments” where the doors have no interior knobs or handles?
There is but one step from the sublime to the absurd, and Sir Ive flirted with it on a regular basis. I wish him well in his retirement, and I hope Tim Cook follows soon.
That would be a pretty silly assumption to make. Yes, Siri may be dump on mobile devices for certain reasons (not because Apple cannot make it smarter)
A hell lot of things can change in a decade or 2, and the landscape of technology would be almost unrecognizable from where we stand right now. I can't believe people are so short sighted on this subject.
My current car doesn't have a headphone jack so it's partially ahead of the game. For that matter, none of my cars have had a headphone jack (I know they were/are a thing in some cars).
This is beyond frightening lmao.
Siri, turn left.
"Here's what I found on the web for "turn left"".
Oh ****
-Proceeds to drive off cliff-
Siri, turn left.
"Here's what I found on the web for "turn left"".
Oh ****
-Proceeds to drive off cliff-
Cars with no steering wheel, $2000 cell phones, and $1000 monitor stands. CLOWN. It's like he got sucked into his own reality distortion field. If only he was REALLY going away.
Given that Sir Clown insisted on removing every button and port from computers and phones, OF COURSE no steering wheel!
Given that Sir Clown insisted on removing every button and port from computers and phones, OF COURSE no steering wheel!
Jony Ive: 8 hits and 8 misses from 20 years at Apple
Included on the "misses" list was - not one, but - two different mice. I think this might go a long way to explain why I've long since stoped using a mouse with my Macs, relying on the touchpad, instead. (I even got the first stand alone bluetooth trackpad, and not a mouse, for my last desktop mac: The 2010 Mac mini server.)
Included on the "misses" list was - not one, but - two different mice. I think this might go a long way to explain why I've long since stoped using a mouse with my Macs, relying on the touchpad, instead. (I even got the first stand alone bluetooth trackpad, and not a mouse, for my last desktop mac: The 2010 Mac mini server.)
It's just a minimalistic design guys, no need to go crazy. Cars have frequently been burdened with a steering wheel. Imagine the space you could save without it.
Same with those pesky tyres. Time to ditch this legacy hardware.
Same with those pesky tyres. Time to ditch this legacy hardware.
How would someone be able to take over operation of the vehicle when necessary?
I always thought this video was a parody or a joke. I guess it was legit this whole time!
Quick! Tell the stockholders something that makes it sound like Apple has been running without Ives for years now.
