jumpingcoco

makes lots of sense for 2nd tier manufacturers to take this chance

OMG, protecting privacy becomes a one-company uphill battle...

finding a contractor for manufacturing is brilliant

Although I'm not a fan of Hyundai or Kia, they are in the end just a manufacturer that has to make a car according to Apple's requirements. But it's likely that Apple will have less control over hardware and design

First of all, there's no real autonomous vehicle out there, people like me who own a Tesla know that the self-claimed self-driving cars today are really just "toys" or as Steve said "baby software", when you think about it, this is a really difficult and complicated system to build, to Apple this is one of those "core technologies" they want to have in hand; secondly, battery technology today is booming and I'm sure there will be two or three best providers, so heavily investing in battery tech will likely to diminish Apple's dominance in "core technologies", and finally, don't manufacture, find OEM, find contract manufacturers, they'll be the Foxconn in the car industry if Apple has a whole system designed. In the end, vertical integration in autonomous driving and in-car experience would distinguish Apple car from others.