'Apple Car' rollout reportedly delayed until 2021, owing to obstacles in 'Project Titan'

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  • Reply 21 of 53
    MacPromacpro Posts: 19,873member
    markiezyy said:
    Apple should just buy Tesla and go from there.
    Talking of Tesla, I just read Elon's second 10 year manifesto.  The relevance to this thread is that one of his plans is that your Autonomous Tesla when not in use by you can toddle off on its own and work as part of a 'collective' being Uber style taxis.  Musk thinks the income could easily equal your car payments.  What a mind blowing thought ...  There goes your car, off to work.  LOL
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  • Reply 22 of 53
    lkrupplkrupp Posts: 10,557member
    markiezyy said:
    Apple should just buy Tesla and go from there.
    Talking of Tesla, I just read Elon's second 10 year manifesto.  The relevance to this thread is that one of his plans is that your Autonomous Tesla when not in use by you can toddle off on its own and work as part of a 'collective' being Uber style taxis.  Musk thinks the income could easily equal your car payments.  What a mind blowing thought ...  There goes your car, off to work.  LOL
    Until some drunk urinates, defecates , vomits, or ejaculates in your car while its "working" to make the payments. Have you ever talked with a taxi driver?
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  • Reply 23 of 53
    nolamacguynolamacguy Posts: 4,758member
    lkrupp said:
    Talking of Tesla, I just read Elon's second 10 year manifesto.  The relevance to this thread is that one of his plans is that your Autonomous Tesla when not in use by you can toddle off on its own and work as part of a 'collective' being Uber style taxis.  Musk thinks the income could easily equal your car payments.  What a mind blowing thought ...  There goes your car, off to work.  LOL
    Until some drunk urinates, defecates , vomits, or ejaculates in your car while its "working" to make the payments. Have you ever talked with a taxi driver?
    how do uber drivers/owners deal with that now? they make you pay. why couldnt you do the same in the future?
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  • Reply 24 of 53
    paxmanpaxman Posts: 4,729member
    markiezyy said:
    Apple should just buy Tesla and go from there.
    Talking of Tesla, I just read Elon's second 10 year manifesto.  The relevance to this thread is that one of his plans is that your Autonomous Tesla when not in use by you can toddle off on its own and work as part of a 'collective' being Uber style taxis.  Musk thinks the income could easily equal your car payments.  What a mind blowing thought ...  There goes your car, off to work.  LOL
    In this future why would anyone even own a car. One of the best things that could happen (imo) is the depersonalization of the car. It should be a shared means of transport, not an extension of one's ego / personality, or the expression of one's imagined status. People can and will do as they please but having a 60 grand car sitting in your driveway 90% of the time makes little sense. I can envision a day when public transport as we know it, along with personal car ownership will be replaced by autonomous vehicles. This will give rise to a new business opportunity - leisure tracks - where people who enjoy driving can have fun without stop signs, congestion, and silly speed limits. 
    edited July 2016
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  • Reply 25 of 53
    MacPromacpro Posts: 19,873member
    lkrupp said:
    Talking of Tesla, I just read Elon's second 10 year manifesto.  The relevance to this thread is that one of his plans is that your Autonomous Tesla when not in use by you can toddle off on its own and work as part of a 'collective' being Uber style taxis.  Musk thinks the income could easily equal your car payments.  What a mind blowing thought ...  There goes your car, off to work.  LOL
    Until some drunk urinates, defecates , vomits, or ejaculates in your car while its "working" to make the payments. Have you ever talked with a taxi driver?
    Same could be said about vacation rental homes but people buy them.  I've owned five of them and once in a while you get a bad tenant.  For the most part it was all good.  

    The last taxi driver I chatted with was in Istanbul a few months back, so I doubt that's the main worry he has currently.  He was proudly telling me how well sectarian Turkey was doing.   /sigh

    Maybe Elon's going to add in a robotic arm that throws such a**holes out on dark corners
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  • Reply 26 of 53
    MacPromacpro Posts: 19,873member
    paxman said:
    Talking of Tesla, I just read Elon's second 10 year manifesto.  The relevance to this thread is that one of his plans is that your Autonomous Tesla when not in use by you can toddle off on its own and work as part of a 'collective' being Uber style taxis.  Musk thinks the income could easily equal your car payments.  What a mind blowing thought ...  There goes your car, off to work.  LOL
    In this future why would anyone even own a car. One of the best things that could happen (imo) is the depersonalization of the car. It should be a shared means of transport, not an extension of one's ego / personality, or the expression of one's imagined status. People can and will do as they please but having a 60 grand car sitting in your driveway 90% of the time makes little sense. I can envision a day when public transport as we know it, along with personal car ownership will be replaced by autonomous vehicles. This will give rise to a new business opportunity - leisure tracks - where people who enjoy driving can have fun without stop signs, congestion, and silly speed limits. 
    Ultimately I could see that happening, in fact if you think about it, if he's right many people may buy them to only rent out hence your concept simply becomes a business like owning rental properties.  At some point there's nothing but this but they have to be owned by someone or some company.

    There will be a longish transition period though from self owned cars and I can well see Elon's idea working.  He doesn't seem to get too many things wrong.

    You last idea has suddenly given me an idea of what Scotland could be used for!  ;)
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  • Reply 27 of 53
    MacPromacpro Posts: 19,873member

    lkrupp said:
    Until some drunk urinates, defecates , vomits, or ejaculates in your car while its "working" to make the payments. Have you ever talked with a taxi driver?
    how do uber drivers/owners deal with that now? they make you pay. why couldnt you do the same in the future?
    Good point and in car cameras might be linked to a central monitoring system.  Throw up and your credit card is debited and the ejector seat kicks in.  ;)
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  • Reply 28 of 53
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member
    The Apple Car will come with a free Apple HDTV and three months of free Apple Television Service an apology for taking so long to exist.
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  • Reply 29 of 53
    bulk001bulk001 Posts: 828member
    ireland said:
    markiezyy said:
    Apple should just buy Tesla and go from there.
    You should preface it by saying "in my opinion...". 
    Well obviously it is his (or her) opinion or they wouldn't have said it now would they? If they were being sarcastic or joking they would have added something like /s or jk to show that.
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  • Reply 30 of 53
    MacPromacpro Posts: 19,873member
    markiezyy said:
    Apple should just buy Tesla and go from there.
    Buy everything Musk has ...   Imagine Space !  :)
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  • Reply 31 of 53
    Wow....think about the opportunities that come from building a cloud system that receives and contextualizes 2-10 GB of data per mile: massively dropping storage prices, a killer cloud system for developers to tap into that increasingly functions like AI, and much smarter interfaces on all Apple products.       

    The cloud infrastructure side of the Apple Car project could improve Apple's capabilities as a company more than any other technical achievement around the corner. Who cares about the car - look at the superintelligence they could create. 

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  • Reply 32 of 53
    SpamSandwichspamsandwich Posts: 33,407member
    "The rumored car we never announced may or may not be delayed..."

     :* 
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    cornchip
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  • Reply 33 of 53
    sirlance99sirlance99 Posts: 1,304member
    "The rumored car we never announced may or may not be delayed..."

     :* 
    Yet, everyone knows they are and says it's the worst kept secret. 
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  • Reply 34 of 53
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member
    Yet, everyone knows they are and says it's the worst kept secret. 
    It's the worst kept secret because it isn't happening. 
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  • Reply 35 of 53
    sirlance99sirlance99 Posts: 1,304member
    Yet, everyone knows they are and says it's the worst kept secret. 
    It's the worst kept secret because it isn't happening. 
    Until it does happen 
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  • Reply 36 of 53
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member
    Until it does happen 
    Unless they're literally going to reinvent the wheel, what can they do that hasn't been done? Tires that can't deflate are a must; maybe even spheres. 

    If you're going to reinvent the car, you have to do a ground up reinvention. What I love out of the whole skateboard electric shtick is the possibility of bringing back any old car design and being able to slap it onto the drivetrain template. Laser scan some classic 40s and 50s designs, 3D print the panels, and plop it down onto a standardized bottom. Consideration being given for the wheel placement, that is.



    Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but vehicles just don't have any soul to them these days.
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  • Reply 37 of 53
    hucom2000hucom2000 Posts: 149member
    I just hope Apple takes it's time with this. Better to be late to the game than having nothing revolutionary to show.
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  • Reply 38 of 53
    2021 is too late. I need a new car by 2020. Apple just lost out on my money!!   /s
    cornchip
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  • Reply 39 of 53
    mattinozmattinoz Posts: 2,680member
    paxman said:
    Talking of Tesla, I just read Elon's second 10 year manifesto.  The relevance to this thread is that one of his plans is that your Autonomous Tesla when not in use by you can toddle off on its own and work as part of a 'collective' being Uber style taxis.  Musk thinks the income could easily equal your car payments.  What a mind blowing thought ...  There goes your car, off to work.  LOL
    In this future why would anyone even own a car. One of the best things that could happen (imo) is the depersonalization of the car. It should be a shared means of transport, not an extension of one's ego / personality, or the expression of one's imagined status. People can and will do as they please but having a 60 grand car sitting in your driveway 90% of the time makes little sense. I can envision a day when public transport as we know it, along with personal car ownership will be replaced by autonomous vehicles. This will give rise to a new business opportunity - leisure tracks - where people who enjoy driving can have fun without stop signs, congestion, and silly speed limits. 
    Given Apple's business model to date has been Personalization of tech. Do Apple really have the right perspective for a world where nobody own a car full time?
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  • Reply 40 of 53
    flaneurflaneur Posts: 4,526member
    Until it does happen 
    Unless they're literally going to reinvent the wheel, what can they do that hasn't been done? Tires that can't deflate are a must; maybe even spheres. 

    If you're going to reinvent the car, you have to do a ground up reinvention. What I love out of the whole skateboard electric shtick is the possibility of bringing back any old car design and being able to slap it onto the drivetrain template. Laser scan some classic 40s and 50s designs, 3D print the panels, and plop it down onto a standardized bottom. Consideration being given for the wheel placement, that is.



    Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but vehicles just don't have any soul to them these days.
    That's true. No soul, no charm, no grace. 
    tallest skil
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