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The Nissan that rear ends the Apple Car is at fault.

I cannot imagine any reason for rear end ending another car in front of you while going 15 miles per hour.
Even if the person cuts you off, you are at always at fault for rear ending.

At 15 miles an hour, you have to wonder if it was done on purpose.

I say make that Nissan Leaf's insurance pay for all the expensive Velodyne LiDAR sensors.  Could easily cost $100,000 or more in damages.

Poor Tesla is confused.  
They don't know what else to do beyond fast electric cars as the competition zeros in on them.

Tesla has a nice network of fast chargers but they are not monetizing it at all.  
Tesla should charge for using the chargers to make a profit and maintain the chargers.
These chargers will soon need to be retrofitted for wireless charging.

Kuo actually sounds about right although I think it could be sooner.
5G will start to deploy any time now.  Significant VR and autonomous car testing has been done and some patents have been filed.
The whole integrated package including electrification, autonomous driving of newly architected vehicles and ride sharing needs to be tested extensively.

I have a feeling that some of Apple Physical Car's hardware work is being done at zoox.  ( zoox.com )
About a year ago, 17 Apple car engineers joined zoox together as a group and I think Apple may have arranged that move.  Not sure who is funding them.
Zoox is extremely secretive and they appear to use autonomous technology that is patented by Apple like map-less autonomous driving.

Check out their "crab like" 4 wheel steering capable test cars.

Man, the guy was doing so well.
What drives a person to do this?  Greed?

He will likely miss the first 10 years of his new baby's life.  Sad, very sad.

SendMcjak said:

PAIL could be epic ...

It will be.
I hope they use the new S3 solid state LiDAR from Quanergy.
First vehicle to fully integrate Electrification, Autonomous driving and Car sharing based on Apple's Car OS.
Tme will tell.