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Report: Apple Developing Apple Car Autopilot Function With South Korean Partner
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Yes, you are right about present EV battery pack are very heavy and using Li-ion battery system I think.
i think it is old tech or maybe they did bit of tweak, we need something much more powerful than Li-ion something lighter & long cubic shape.
I don’t know but surly it can be done somehow.
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I believe sir Ive was also being sarcastic
My assumption is that you will need the Apple AR headset to fully utilize all capabilities of the Apple Car. But it will be a separate purchase. To help save the environment.
This was tried 20 Year’s ago, did not work out, and a lot of money was lost, not to mention the the los the people who bought the cars, that were useles.
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The tragic lack of software quality control at Apple would be my number 1 reason.
As a tesla owner I can safely say that time to recharge is easily managed. There are many times that cars sit idle.
Get on board and be part of the move away from fossil fuels now!
Yep. Much easier to plug in to a super charger for 15 minutes.
The battery pack idea also supposes that all cars can take the weight in the same location. The battery in a Tesla is under the floor to keep the centre of gravity low. It’s like a long thin strip.
Different length cars would need different batteries. Different weight cars might need different size batteries.
The more I think about it the dumber the idea gets.
Just tailor the battery for ideal power, weight and size to suit the dynamics of the car. And plug it in to a supercharger for 15 minutes every couple of days instead.
Or better yet, trickle charge it from your solar panels and drive for free!
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Congrats. Teslas are amazing. We have a couple ourselves. I'm definitely going to see what Apple has to offer though. They're the one company that can seamlessly integrate hardware and software in as compelling a way as Tesla.
Even on the good old 1701-D they had a guy that pressed a button to accomplish that.
The issue is clearly far more complicated than throwing a lot of computational horsepower at it. I don't see truly self driving cars out in the wild this decade. It's not like you can just have a minor bug, get notified and it'll get fixed in the next update. It's more like you have a minor bug, people die, and then you're Boeing having 5000 planes grounded. This stuff needs to be as safe as a pillow in bubble wrap, and I'm not confident we're even close to there yet. Even if statistically self driving cars would produce less accidents than conventional cars, people will go mad about every single incident of an autonomous vehicle running over grandma.
I disagree. When Elon Musk, also kindly known as the King of BS, can get rich on building electric cars so can Apple or anyone else with enough pocket change to enter the market. The questions is: will it ever be any good? That's indeed doubtful.
They would technically have to buy into an established manufacturer and take it from there, agreed. Hyundai has been floated as a possible partner for that multiple times. Considering most cars are made out of parts from other manufacturers it's highly doubtful any mass produced car out there isn't more brand than actual engineering.
Personally I'm not sold on electric cars being the solution to anything, really. They are great fun, yes, but solving a problem caused by every person driving their own self propelled multi-ton plastic and steel coffin around with more of said multi-ton plastic and steel coffins now loaded with toxic waste and rare earth minerals really doesn't ring true. If people really want to do something for a sustainable future of the human species they need to start living a different life, not buying a different product. So can we all please agree that no Tesla was ever sold to make the world a better place? And Apple won't change a bit about that.
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NIO Cars have just launched the battery changing concept here in Norway. It’s only for their cars though, and of course a bit limited in the beginning.
I’ve driven an electric car for 5 years (Hyundai) and I feel pain the few times I use my BMW and have to pay a small fortune at the gas station.
NIO is Chinese and I would never buy a Chinese car as long as there are other options.
Curious about the apple car though.
Quite a few experts say now that fully autonomous cars are much harder to do than they let on. It will take a lot longer than a few years before they are ready for prime time
I’ve driven an electric car for 5 years (Hyundai) and I feel pain the few times I use my BMW and have to pay a small fortune at the gas station.
NIO is Chinese and I would never buy a Chinese car as long as there are other options.
Curious about the apple car though.
Quite a few experts say now that fully autonomous cars are much harder to do than they let on. It will take a lot longer than a few years before they are ready for prime time
By 2024, the Apple Car will have about as much impact as Apple TV+ in the streaming wars. I remember when just a rumor of this would have been enough to tank auto stocks, but nowadays, no one cares what Apple is up to because they haven’t disrupted anything since the iPad.
I like your optimism and I hope Apple can add something to the mix, but I have little faith considering Apple has been working on this thing for a decade now with little to show for it other than constant employee and mgmt turnover. My guess is it’ll be more like Apple Music, Apple TV+, and HomePod… late to the game with not much new to offer.
That “erratic voice” OTOH has literally created the blueprint for how to make EV’s profitably and completely disrupted the auto industry in the process. He’s also proven to be far smarter and more ambitious than Apple mgmt who have turned Apple from an innovator and disrupter to a slow follower.
As for recalls, I’m pretty certain every modern car has been recalled at least once. A few years ago, there were something like 3+ recalls for every vehicle sold, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s worse today. IOW, cars have become super complex and recalls are a meaningless gauge of how satisfied you will be with a car. If it were, Mercedes would have gone out of business years ago since they seem to lead that category every other year.
There’s already plenty of competition. Just about every major car company has released or will soon release a bevy of EV’s and we’ll even see a pickup from Ford before Tesla. This is significant because more pickup trucks are purchased by the most hypocritical and entitled generation who claim to care the most about the environment than any other generation.
I like your optimism and I hope Apple can add something to the mix, but I have little faith considering Apple has been working on this thing for a decade now with little to show for it other than constant employee and mgmt turnover. My guess is it’ll be more like Apple Music, Apple TV+, and HomePod… late to the game with not much new to offer.
That “erratic voice” OTOH has literally created the blueprint for how to make EV’s profitably and completely disrupted the auto industry in the process. He’s also proven to be far smarter and more ambitious than Apple mgmt who have turned Apple from an innovator and disrupter to a slow follower.
As for recalls, I’m pretty certain every modern car has been recalled at least once. A few years ago, there were something like 3+ recalls for every vehicle sold, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s worse today. IOW, cars have become super complex and recalls are a meaningless gauge of how satisfied you will be with a car. If it were, Mercedes would have gone out of business years ago since they seem to lead that category every other year.
This was tried 20 Year’s ago, did not work out, and a lot of money was lost, not to mention the the los the people who bought the cars, that were useles.
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Pity 20 years ago, the technologies wasn’t very advanced at the time, now we have lots of smart people out there who can do it.
The discussion I find here is basically the same as on the Tesla forum.
Making, selling and owning a car is part of the bigger picture called "personal mobility".
Four aspects that play a major role:
1. Enjoying a car, Fahrvergnügen etc. has a lot to do with controlling the car
2. The joy of manual mode has a lot to do with car ownership, design, performance etc.
3. If you can't control (don't have to steer) the car, why own the car?
4. If you don't own the car, a driverless vehicle can be more utilitarian
Below is a depiction how car automation may "disrupt".
Have the money to own a car (many do), hang on to one (or two).
Don't have the money, or the parking space like in many Asian and European cities,
and my prediction is that (subscription-based) personal mobility through AVs may
well turn out to be cheaper than Public Transport!
Making, selling and owning a car is part of the bigger picture called "personal mobility".
Four aspects that play a major role:
1. Enjoying a car, Fahrvergnügen etc. has a lot to do with controlling the car
2. The joy of manual mode has a lot to do with car ownership, design, performance etc.
3. If you can't control (don't have to steer) the car, why own the car?
4. If you don't own the car, a driverless vehicle can be more utilitarian
Below is a depiction how car automation may "disrupt".
Have the money to own a car (many do), hang on to one (or two).
Don't have the money, or the parking space like in many Asian and European cities,
and my prediction is that (subscription-based) personal mobility through AVs may
well turn out to be cheaper than Public Transport!
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Which may be the case, but if it is why would the ride-hail providers sell the vehicles to end users, then turn around and have to pay the end users to use the vehicles in the ride-hail service, when they could just cut out the middle man, so to speak.The discussion I find here is basically the same as on the Tesla forum.
Making, selling and owning a car is part of the bigger picture called "personal mobility".
Four aspects that play a major role:
1. Enjoying a car, Fahrvergnügen etc. has a lot to do with controlling the car
2. The joy of manual mode has a lot to do with car ownership, design, performance etc.
3. If you can't control (don't have to steer) the car, why own the car?
4. If you don't own the car, a driverless vehicle can be more utilitarian
Below is a depiction how car automation may "disrupt".
Have the money to own a car (many do), hang on to one (or two).
Don't have the money, or the parking space like in many Asian and European cities,
and my prediction is that (subscription-based) personal mobility through AVs may
well turn out to be cheaper than Public Transport!
Ride-hail providers like Cruise, Waymo etc. will offer subscription-based
personal mobility; driverless is a way of cutting out the biggest cost factor,
the human driver.
Car companies can still sell cars, highly personalized etc. like they do now;
driverless will then be more of a comfort feature.
personal mobility; driverless is a way of cutting out the biggest cost factor,
the human driver.
Car companies can still sell cars, highly personalized etc. like they do now;
driverless will then be more of a comfort feature.