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Apple Cancels Electric Car Project (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 4 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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Apple Cancels Electric Car Project::Apple has canceled all plans to release an autonomous, electric vehicle, reports Bloomberg. Apple has been working on an Apple Car for more than a...

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Work on the ‌Apple Car‌ is winding down and many of the people that were working on the car will move to Apple's artificial intelligence division to work on generative AI under AI chief John Giannandrea.

First the Wendy's menu, now Apple. Everyone get on board the AI hype train!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Hope that train careens off a clif

[–] Ghostalmedia 5 points 4 months ago

To be fair, those people were probably already working on models. It was just AI / ML for driving and car safety.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

what are the chances it would have been way overpriced compared to it similar competitors?

[–] SpaceNoodle 16 points 4 months ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That wouldn’t have stopped the billionaires from buying them and talking about how much better they are to us regular plebs.

[–] kameecoding 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They probably realized self-driving cars wont be a thing maybe ever.

This push for self driving car push is so fucking regarded given that there are literally things a million times easier to automate like trams, ltr and trains, metro etc.

Basically anything on rails.

[+] yetiftw -6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

there was no need to use a slur to get your point across

[–] kameecoding 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What slur and why the fuck not?

[–] scottrepreneur 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Regarded

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Kind regards

[–] abhibeckert -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

"Retarded" was once a medical and technical term. It's not any more and has officially been redefined in dictionaries as abusive slur against people who have a serious medical condition... and you used it in the modern context.

The word is socially unacceptable now. Stop using it.

[–] kameecoding 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

that's retarded, I also haven't used it, until now.

"retarded" is also not a medical term, mental retardation and the like are medical terms, retard has a specific meaning, for example if your arm stops developing at a young age, then you have a retarded arm, it has also been used as a slur for the longest time, stop trying to police words because it might hurt someone's feelings.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

The iWindow got closed for the iCar...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well who needs to actually go places when you can just buy a computer for everyone’s face that will just make them feel like they went somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Surrogates (2009) starring Bruce Willis and Rosamund Pike

[–] Nurse_Robot 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well that didn't take long

[–] AbidanYre 7 points 4 months ago

It's been over a decade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Are you a timelord or something?