Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car

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Post by lmm » Fri, Aug 25, 2017, 10:12 AM UTC

Turing_Machine wrote: post #425

aninhumer wrote: post #419

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Well okay. If you really feel that being able to take a trip to a less accessible location at a few seconds notice at peak times is vitally important to you, then you're still free to own your own self-driving car. But I think most people would much rather wait a few minutes on those occasions and save their money. (And FWIW, I think it could be fairly quick, since you don't have to pay a self-driving car to sit arou…

Evidence is against it. We have cabs (also Uber, Lyft, etc.) now , but most people outside dense urban cores still choose to own their own car.

That's less true of the younger generation though.

Re: Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car

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Post by jacquesm » Fri, Aug 25, 2017, 11:21 AM UTC

rothbardrand wrote: post #403

jacquesm wrote: post #286

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And then there is stronger braking to be considered, which almost always is some kind of disk brake which you can't do if there is no shaft to mount one on. Which means the spherical wheel system would have to be oversized to compensate for lack of such a shaft even if it would work to drive the car. Magnetic wheels have other interesting problems that would need to be solved such as when two cars get close to each o…

People who never think creatively never invent anything. You are shitting on the fact that they even explored the idea as if ipso facto you know it was a bad idea. You don't. That you think you do is why you won't be inventing an iPhone.

That's true. But then again, I did come up with live streaming video on the web and some other lesser known bits and pieces of technology. And I'd argue my lego sorting machine also required plenty of creative thinking.

Re: Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car

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Post by ethbro » Fri, Aug 25, 2017, 6:37 PM UTC

coredog64 wrote: post #306

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Also, for historical and political reasons, auto importing tends to be subject to a lot more taxing by customs.

Yep. Look up the chicken tax, or the way that Ford gets around it for their new small van.

Fascinating! Specifically with respect to NAFTA & its possible renegotiation.

It also makes me realize how terrifying it must be for major manufacturers to site capital-intensive factories. Wrong country? Or country that becomes wrong country a decade later? 25% tariff.

Re: Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car

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Post by nadim » Wed, Aug 30, 2017, 11:28 AM UTC

ninkendo wrote: post #180

nadim wrote: post #81

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On Titan? "billions of dollars on R&D in a new market segment"

Probably. After all, they're pushing 3bn per quarter and titan presumably lasted a few years. If it was 10% of R&D for 3 years it would be over 2bn according to that graph.

Ok that makes sense.