He dropped enough hints. It might be an A.I.-powered electric-car ride hailing service that you can ask Siri to order, and you pay for it using Apple Pay
Car nothing. It's a self-flying drone taxi service.
There are quite a few companies looking at "drone" taxis. And short hop travel within the distance of a city or two is an underserved market. Imagine hopping over traffic to visit a friend or relative or have lunch in a location only 60 or 100 miles away, then catching an AirTaxi back all in the matter of a few hours or less.
He dropped enough hints. It might be an A.I.-powered electric-car ride hailing service that you can ask Siri to order, and you pay for it using Apple Pay
I think ALL the autonomous vehicles will be AI-powered. That's a given isn't it?
You post a tautology and ask me "duh?" Why even post that? I didn't say anything to the contrary.
He dropped enough hints. It might be an A.I.-powered electric-car ride hailing service that you can ask Siri to order, and you pay for it using Apple Pay
I agree with @gatorguy. Aren't all these a given, except for the ride hailing service
What exactly, do you think I said in my original post? That these were not "given"? Did I say that?
I like the idea of AI vehicle. Yes, it is ride sharing. It is self driving. It is Apple Uber but instead of people driving it, it drives itself. We just call it by a phone, it arrives and transport us to our pre-input destination. And of course, paid with ApplePay.
If anything, this makes more sense than Apple making either a car or just a software. Both are neither controllable nor profitable.
There's another angle to this story which will doubtlessly come into play once autonomous vehicles are coming into the market with regularity (possibly as early as 1-2 years from now), and it's the political angle.
I've no doubt that Congress will start to demand that these new cars must be able to communicate with each other, to help create safer "smart highways" and so the onboard controlling software will need to have a Federally mandated minimum of features and sensor connections in order to be given an "autonomous vehicle" stamp of approval.
Once that happens, all that will matter for the passengers will be the quality of their experience with the vehicle itself and the added "services" provided by the software to make their driving experiences more pleasant or productive. Apple owning the entire top-to-bottom experience will ensure that passengers have access to entertainment and productivity or if they want to sleep instead, a smooth, soundproof, luxurious ride.
Think a packet network hybridized with a mesh network of identifiable vehicles. At the least, a "classic" non autonomous vehicle would need to communicate to the mesh network the equivalent of a graded value from skull and crossbones to World Rally Car to cover the occupant's skill set combined with the vehicle's capabilities.
I think it'll only take 1-2 years once autonomous vehicles are on the road until lawmakers notice a significant drop in collisions and subsequently insurance companies will skyrocket the rates of car insurance on all cars which do not have these safety features. It may eventually become completely cost prohibitive for people to travel the roads without an autonomous system. I suspect motorcyclists may also become subject to some degree of automation.
Thankfully there is not just one insurance company, so there will be competition for business. And thankfully most countries are democracies, where a government that arbitrarily tried to "ban" driving one's own vehicle would soon find their representatives looking for work after the next election.
The green and utopia visions of many are only possible in a technocratic dictatorship. Fortunately most of us don't live in dictatorships (for now).
He dropped enough hints. It might be an A.I.-powered electric-car ride hailing service that you can ask Siri to order, and you pay for it using Apple Pay
I think ALL the autonomous vehicles will be AI-powered. That's a given isn't it?
You post a tautology and ask me "duh?" Why even post that? I didn't say anything to the contrary.
He dropped enough hints. It might be an A.I.-powered electric-car ride hailing service that you can ask Siri to order, and you pay for it using Apple Pay
I agree with @gatorguy. Aren't all these a given, except for the ride hailing service
What exactly, do you think I said in my original post? That these were not "given"? Did I say that?
You were less than clear on your meaning I guess since at least two readers misunderstood the point you were attempting to make. My apologies if you thought I was trying to insult you. I was not.
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Why even post that? I didn't say anything to the contrary.
If anything, this makes more sense than Apple making either a car or just a software. Both are neither controllable nor profitable.
The green and utopia visions of many are only possible in a technocratic dictatorship. Fortunately most of us don't live in dictatorships (for now).