Sources: Apple is developing an autonomous, electric vehicle, which could be released in five to seven years, as it adds more ex-Tesla execs to the project
and this is its secret weapon Rajesh Pandey / iPhone Hacks : Apple Car Won't Be Ready for at Least Half a Decade Jill Disis / CNN : Hyundai's stock skyrockets on reports it is in talks with Apple to build a car Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1459: what's Trump without big social media?, Boeing pays $2.5bn to settle 737 Max charge, Apple Car running slow, and more Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Report: Apple Car may take five to seven years to deliver Tweets: Mark Gurman / @markgurman : Apple is working on a full self-driving car, but development is early with a launch at least half a decade away. Apple also moved Tesla's former car interior head to car team, hired Tesla's former Autopilot chief, and is working on a car chip. That & more: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Robert Scoble / @scobleizer : @markgurman Apple could buy GM out of petty cash. And get it for its autonomous division. So it can always get into transportation if it wants to. @jonyiveparody : The greatest car that Apple has never released! https://twitter.com/... McGuire Wood / @jioriku : On the one hand, cool that they are in talks I'm the other hand: They're only making the chips as of this moment. No actual car. Probably in talks to integrate them in future vehicles that aren't Apple x Company https://twitter.com/... James O'Malley / @psythor : Presumably hoping that: a) the cost of LIDAR comes down and b) They can use their chip tech to do some really fast local ML processing to solve for the most difficult 5% of self-driving situations no one else has cracked yet. https://twitter.com/... Patrick McGee / @patrickmcgee_ : “Some Apple engineers on the project believe the company could release a product in five to seven years if Apple goes ahead with its plans. The car is nowhere near production stage, the people said, though they did warn timelines could change.” https://twitter.com/... Emil Protalinski / @epro : The last 3 stories (across just 11 days) detailing Apple's plans for a car can be summed up 3 words: TBD https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Geoffrey A. Fowler / @geoffreyfowler : And if we learned anything from the first iPad and Apple Watch: Don't buy the first-gen Apple Car https://twitter.com/... Sean Hollister / @starfire2258 : Don't expect the Apple Car anytime soon. (Reuters previously said Apple targeting production by 2024, so this might seem a contradiction but could just be corroboration, if the engineers cited here are doing their best Scotty.) https://twitter.com/... David ‘cyberdunk’ Ruddock / @rdrv3 : in other words, apple is not working on a car, it's working on the feasibility of a car, and I strongly suspect that will end up as most of apple's weird side projects do: nothing https://twitter.com/... @nkwaten : Thought they killed it and focused on an carOS instead. Anyway welcome back https://twitter.com/...