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> Oh great... another self-driving car project... /s Hmm?
by draw_down 9y ago
> Oh great... another self-driving car project... /s
Hmm?
- 27182818284 9y agoApple was thinking about doing driverless cars of some sort after Tesla and Google. They seemed to be taking employees from Tesla and Ford for a while, but recent rumors are that the project has been halted. They also registered the domain apple.car The grandparent is likening Apple jumping on the bandwagon after competitors' cars to them jumping on the bandwagon with the speaker.
- draw_down 9y agoWell, that's just silly.
- dkonofalski 9y agoIt feels like this is jumping on a bandwagon. How many competing smart home speakers do we really need? It's just like the situation with self-driving cars. How many players are there now? Waymo, Intel, Uber, Apple, Yandex, Lyft, Tesla... how many of these do we need?
- draw_down 9y agoI don't understand this mentality. Apple often enters into "crowded" markets and then establishes either a clear winner, or a strong contender. The market's existence removes any question of whether people are buying, so... what's the problem? They just shouldn't do it because other people make them already? Lots of others make laptops, smartphones, headphones, set-top boxes... and yet, and yet. They still turn quite a profit.
- spookthesunset 9y agoHow many of those self driving cars actually exist as a commercial product at this point? So far, zero.
- greglindahl 9y agoWe "need" one one supplier of self-driving tech for each large global car company. That's how previous technology transitions in automobiles have worked: usually everyone eventually figures out to build "it", whatever "it" is.