> Apple’s dead car project will be survived by its underlying technologies. The company plans to take what it has learned about artificial intelligence and auto

> Apple’s dead car project will be survived by its underlying technologies. The company plans to take what it has learned about artificial intelligence and automation and apply it to other technologies that are being researched, including A.I.-powered AirPods with cameras, robot assistants and augmented reality, according to three people briefed on the projects. It's difficult to get a sense for what actually came out of the car project while it was running. But you can certainly imagine a case where a $1b/year R&D project, at Apple's scale, was giving them acceptable returns to feed into their other products. e.g. a self-driving electric car presumably involved a lot of work on battery tech, augmented reality (at least at the world-parsing level), and interesting display tech for the windshield, all of which is heavily relevant for many Apple products. An actual insider gossiping to tell us what directly came from the project would be interesting to see!