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Here comes the Hammond: Apple Car

Posted by sdesapio 9 years, 2 months ago to Technology

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The Apple Car is what the media has taken to calling the electric car project that's rumored to be in development at Apple under the code name "Project Titan."

SOURCE URL: http://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-car/

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Posted by terrycan 9 years, 2 months ago

The self driving car will happen. It will be a blessing for many. The very old will extend their independence with it.
My plan is to resist it as long as possible. Driving is a skill and a pleasure for me.

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Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 2 months ago

I think that driverless cars will be a tremendous boon to the commuting public. I've done simulations that show that driver choices to attempt to "maximize" their short-term gain (switching lanes) actually causes overall slow-downs, including to the individual that tries to gain an advantage. These can all be removed with algorithms to "drive" the cars.

That said, do I really want to put my life in the hands of some entity that doesn't also have a stake in the outcome? This really causes some alarm bells to go off.

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  Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 2 months ago
  
  What if your AI driver decides that the car full of teenagers driven by a drunk teen running the stop sign ahead has more long term value than your life?
  No thanks. I will make my own free will rational-self-interest decisions about where my car goes.
  This is just another scheme to sacrifice the individual for the "greater good."
  
  Apple won't build anything that I want anyway.
  Caspar Milquetoast hand-holding overpriced big brother "we know whats best for you" BS products.
  R-E-B-E-L !!
  
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    Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 2 months ago
    
    I agree with you. I have no real desire for anything Apple (if my boss didn't insist on an iPhone - he's a Jobs disciple - I wouldn't have anything Apple).
    
    However, the AI driver wouldn't be making that decision, since the other car would also be being driven by an AI driver.
    
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      Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 2 months ago
      
      I don't mind others buying them if there is value given to the buyer. Free will, free market. Use what makes you most productive.
      My best friend of 30 years loves their products, has used them ever '84. A few years ago, when I was particularly peeved at MSFT for trashing the windows GUI, I asked her what advantages buying one would give me over my windows PC and she didn't answer. My research on that topic only convinced me that I wasn't the droid that Apple was looking for.
      
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        Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 2 months ago
        
        My problem originally was that if you wanted to "improve" your Apple machine, you were beholden to Apple for that - be it a modem, a video card, or whatever. I preferred the PC format that allowed free competition.
        
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        Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 2 months ago
        
        Yes, MSFT's big challenge was dealing with drivers for hundreds/thousands of vendor products. That was a brilliant approach that was probably just obvious to the geeks that originally created DOS and windows. Of course it led to many of the complaints about windows, but having open hardware spec greatly broadened market share for the OS. Apple's big monetary success is in marketing their retail consumer products, a business that MSFT has never understood, imo.
        
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        Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 2 months ago
        
        But that wasn't the business model for MSFT. They could have closed the system, like Apple, but chose to open it instead. There's been a much greater proliferation and tech advancement due to MSFT than due to AAPL. IMHO.
        
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