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>>The people who would build car brains for Apple would be hired from Car manufacturers. From the perspective of the car makers they too can hire software brai
by kamaal 11y ago
>>The people who would build car brains for Apple would be hired from Car manufacturers.
From the perspective of the car makers they too can hire software brains from software companies.
Do you seriously think, a motor, chassis and four wheels are all there is to make a car? Or its easy to manufacture cars in bulk.
By any reasonable argument, learning how to write software(skills for which are common place today) is far easy than learning to build and manufacture millions of cars.
- alkonaut 11y ago> Do you seriously think, a motor, chassis and four wheels are all there is to make a car? Or its easy to manufacture cars in bulk. I don't think it's that easy, but I do think that once you are at the bulk manufacturing step you have already reached most of the way to the goal. If you have a working car prototype that passes all the regulations in dozens of countries, you have a network of retailers that can sell it and service it and so on (Not a small feat!) then the biggest problem has been overcome already. It keeps getting repeated that Apple can't just "go to Foxconn" to get their car built, but that seems to overlook that "car brains" have essentially been produced by the likes of Bosch for most cars for ages, and that there are manufacturers like Magna-Steyr that have manufactured cars for the highest bidder for a long time. So again: there are huge hurdles to overcome to launch a new car, but two that I don't think apple should worry so much about are 1) Bulk manufacturing and 2) "software development culture".
- Drdrdrq 11y agoBesides, Tesla did it - why not Apple too?