Apple Car?

[nate]

http://bgr.com/2015/02/16/apple-van-video-spy-footage/

 

Question is, are they a competitor for Tesla or for Google's driverless cars.

[HaloCory22]

It'll cost more than a Lambo but run about as well as a Yugo.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Top 10 ways that life would be different if Apple sold cars.

 

10. Cars would be priced higher than they are worth and come from a single source just like they do now. But Apple would continuously advertise that buying one of their cars is an escape from that kind of old style paradigm.

 

9. Apple would be continually lobbying the government to subsidize the donation of cars to schools for driver education.

 

8. Cars would need excessive horsepower to operate more than one accessory at a time.

 

7. Many accessories would operate differently but owners would ignore this and boast to their friends that all of their accessories have an identical look and feel.

 

6. Help regarding the operation of their accessories would be only marginally better than those who drove UNIX cars but the owners would boast that this is of no concern because all of their accessories have an identical look and feel.

 

5. Owners manuals would be very small. Maintenance manuals, needed to add an accessory yourself, would come in seven large volumes.

 

4. Owners would make fun of how complex it is to add an accessory on other cars. Owners would not have a clue just how difficult it was for them to add an accessory to their own car themselves. Very few owners of Apple cars would add their own accessories.

 

3. Periodically a little picture of a bomb would appear on the dashboard and the car would come to a stop. Loyal owners would rarely, if ever, admit this and would convince themselves that this sort of thing happens to owners of other cars all the time.

 

2. People who could never drive before would begin driving, join auto clubs, tell everyone else how to drive, and generally become insufferable bores.

 

1. Using the fruits of a larger company's focused research and development effort cars would be introduced that were 10 years ahead of their time. After release, they wouldn't change for over 10 years...

Edited February 16, 2015 by Vegas Halo Fan

[gotbeer]

Unless every single car were with the driverless technology, which I don't see ever happening, I just don't see this technology as viable.  Maybe I'm wrong, but too many things go on on the streets.  It would be like flooding the streets with teenagers.  

 

Although in closed environments, it could be a good thing.  Like warehouses, and large establishments.  

[Blarg]

1. Upon buying the car you must charge the battery and then run it completely out which will cause it not to take a charge and you will have to wait six months for the battery that works.

[Brandon]

You'll have to upgrade your car every year to be cool even though everyone complains the new version is worse than the previous model.

[nate]

You guys can bash all you want but Apple makes amazing hardware.  If they made a car it would probably be successful.

 

I read a few articles suggesting that they could buy Tesla.  Lots of people say Elon Musk is a lot like Jobs.  Really hard to work with and incredibly anal retentive.  I don't think his pride would allow him to sell Tesla though.

[Hollyw00d]

Jobs was a businessman and advertiser.

Musk is a visionary and innovator. I hope Apple has nothing to do with tesla.

[RePLAY]

11.  When a new model comes out, people will drive it into the ocean thinking it can turn into a boat per internet fake internet posts.

[Tank]

12. some teenager will wait sixteen hours in line on the day the apple car first comes out, and then promptly take a bat to it and bash the crap out of it, just because he can. his buddies will be filming it and laughing arrogantly the whole time, then complain that apple cars are so gimmicky.

[nate]

Jobs was a businessman and advertiser.

Musk is a visionary and innovator. I hope Apple has nothing to do with tesla.

 

Some dumb things have been written here, this is definitely one of the dumbest.

 

Start with the Apple II, move to the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad.  All his visions.

[Hollyw00d]

<p>actually thats not true, and none of those things advance humanity. Its just crap people with first world problems buy</p>

[mrwicked]

Apple is not going to sell cars - the margins are way too thin.

The $$ for them is in the dash board.

[mrwicked]

You guys can bash all you want but Apple makes amazing hardware.  If they made a car it would probably be successful.

 

I read a few articles suggesting that they could buy Tesla.  Lots of people say Elon Musk is a lot like Jobs.  Really hard to work with and incredibly anal retentive.  I don't think his pride would allow him to sell Tesla though.

 

apple could buy tesla easily.

they have $180,000,000,000.

in cash.

they could buy tesla.

and disney.

and uber.

and amazon.

and netflix.

and ibm.

and visa or mastercard.

and pretty much any company they wanted.

in cash.

 

f*cking insane.

 

i still think they should buy HBO and ESPN and make their own apple streaming network.

[Jay]

Apple accused of poaching engineers from battery company.

 

http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/19/apple-poached-ev-battery-engineers/