Look how thin the AppleCar is...
Sure, the majority of Americans can't fit but it's so thin.
Sure, the majority of Americans can't fit but it's so thin.
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Kuo: Apple to Launch Apple Car in 2023 to 2025
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Here in the U.K. Uber are being banned from more and more cities for bad business practices. They are most definitely not driving any cabs out of business and have a pretty poor reputation after the media heavily criticised them.
Don't you know that you need an insurance for driving a car? What will happen when insurance companies decide to support only non-owned and non-human-driven transportation? A "lot of people" will still own cars then? And... do you think this will only apply to driving cars? (hint: no, it won't).
Yes. Elon and Apple are like oil and water. Not because they are different. More because they are the same in different directions. Tesla's true fate will be known when they have to compete. They are not doing that now. No one offers a EV that does what they do. That is rapidly changing. I personally do not believe they CAN compete with GM or Ford. Not to mention the Germans and the Asia region.
There are big issues culture issues between the two. Tesla is a startup and capable of turning on a dime (or a tweet) and operating on slim margins. Apple is much more mainline, with layers of infrastructure. This is why Field never fit at Tesla and was essentially told to go home when he could not make the radical changes needed to hit the Model 3 production timelines.
I hope that people will not underestimate your point. You are allowed to drive a car today with insurance because there is no other choice. But when there is another choice, one that will vastly reduce the risk of financial loss (not to mention the human costs) that is the choice you will have.
It's shocking to realise how the same sentences you listened at Sci-Fi movies, with characters surrendering to electronic/robotic dictatorship are no longer fiction, but freely chosen by real people, in our real world, in this moment. It's obvious that we've doing something very wrong for a century.
Only people that cannot adapt to change. Make sure you are not the equivalent of a elevator operator in the 1940s or a telephone operator in the 1990s. Learn and adapt. No technology every created has not resulted in new jobs for those that could adapt.
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Agreed. And the need for individual policy insurance may disappear. The cost of insurance can be factored into the price of a car or car service.
I didn't say just owning a car. I said both owning and driving it. Be fair, please. You are defending that it's better that we lose our current freedom. Don't try to pretend the opposite now.
What the hell are you on about? Losing what freedom? Where did I say we are losing our freedom?
No, not really, it will be as cheap as Gmail. Just like storing your mail in someone else's servers turns the email free (specially when you also allow to use your mail for marketing purposes), the same will happen with automated cars: you don't own them, you don't drive them, your company collects your data and uses it for their benefit... you can expect a very cheap service, in accordance with how cheap you are selling your freedom and the value of your life.
Because at the end it will always come our way more expensive. Try replacing your car with Lyft rides or Zipcar. It adds up. I’d rather own the car.
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I just wish it won’t be as expensive as Lyft. I guess with this and public transit I can make it work though.
Speaking of which where are our public transit cards inside of Apple Pay?
....love the idea of the virtual teleprompter for speeches. That would be beyond amazing. But with regard to the Apple Car and VR goggles, I wonder if there aren't better options. I would personally much prefer to have Apple iPhone graphics up on the interior windshield, with placement of graphics where appropriate and voice controlled. In current cars, the screens for navigation and other activities are generally lower right to visual field and a distraction to operate manually. It would be safer to have visual indicators of turns, parking boundaries in the windshield visual field so you don't have to take your eyes off the road and other information could be across the bottom or top of the screen so drivers eyes don't have to leave the road.
Even the greatest Sage is not right all of the Thyme.
You can't make a failing manufacturing business profitable very easily. Cars are a fiercely competitive environment with huge capital expense. Apple has designed their hardware manufacturing to use partners, so they don't have to be involved in the nonsense of manufacturing themselves. It's low margin and capital intensive.
Tesla currently doesn't offer a solution to a problem. If you buy a Tesla, you are going backwards in a lot of ways. Charging, limited range, cost, etc. Cars have gotten so good that a $20k Accord gets 35mpg, looks nice, and will run forever with basic maintenance. A $12,000 Kia has a 100k warranty and gets you from point A to point B.
Gas is still relatively cheap, Teslas are relatively expensive, and gas cars work very well with unlimited range.
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Tesla has negative margins and lost more money than ever before just a few weeks ago.
I'd argue Apple can turn faster than Tesla. Tesla is MARRIED to their current manufacturing limitations and all the problems that come with manufacturing. Apple doesn't manufacture anything. They can change suppliers, squeeze margin out of others, and use their leverage to get what they want. It's been incredibly successful. Apple is dominating and Tesla is wondering how they'll pay their debt.
Please, PLEASE do not drive in my part of the world. Thanks.
so, you would not prefer a Transformer, right?
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They do. In the last quarterly meeting, Elon Musk said that Tesla will be profitable and cash-flow positive starting this quarter, and then every quarter from here on. The production bottlenecks that have plagued Model 3 production have mostly been solved.
Musk is known for optimistic promises, so you can take it with a grain of salt, of course. In any case you don’t have to wait long (less than three months) to find out. Even if Tesla doesn’t make it all the way to profitability, any significant reduction in loss for the quarter would be evidence that Tesla is “on the path” to get there.
It’s Apple. So think Mercedes, BMW, Lexus and so on.
I’m hoping that Apple will partner up with existing automakers instead because I would love a new E class with all of the Apple features.