It could feature VR technology and no windows. And monkeys could fly out of my butt.
The Apple Car Could Feature VR Technology And No Windows - VRScout
It only has a gas pedal and you have to hold the Command button to make it brake instead
Worth noting that image is just some shitty "artist's rendition" of what they imagine an Apple car would look like.
Yeah, I don't see this happening at all. Car manufacturing has an enormous upfront cost, and to get the usual apple profit margin you'd probably need to compete in the supercar market, where the total quantity sold isn't enough to return a huge profit.
Pretty sure aphabet has actually done this in small batches for controled environments
Little shuttles for CES and stuff like that. I don't properly remember off the top but I think thr taxi drivers got mad at being cut out.
i legit thought this was one of those 2012 memes about the ipad being 4 iphones vertically taped together
It can run Excel and other applications that use horizontal scrolling, but it's a fucking nightmare to use unless you disable the gesture features.
A near future courtroom scene...
"I must admit that I am having some difficulty understanding how the pedestrian was hit and killed."
"It's quite simple. Gesture features were force enabled."
"So - it was a hardware failure! I have said so!"
"Objection! It was a clearly a software failure!"
"It—"
The judge roars: "Silence in my courtroom! We are taking a two hour recess immediately. All of you in my chambers now. Right now."
I'm looking forward to the appleheads rich-splaining the six figure sticker shock + $400/mo liability insurance and software subscription for a car that can't navigate itself out of a strip mall parking lot or be operated manually under any circumstances.
operated manually under any circumstances
What gives me the creeps about this stuff is the "Why would you want a human doing anything?" mindset. Oh, I don't know. How about if a family is on the highway merrily going along but the car's AI sees a gigantic billboard of a ad car on the other side of a river.
The AI quickly verves off the road towards the "road" of the billboard. The poor family is going to be sent flying off the roadway into the river. And there's nothing they can do. It's even more likely they'll face certain death because - as a bonus - it's 100% impossible to open the car windows or doors underwater. Car functionality was never tested underwater. Why would it be? The car will never be underwater.
Siri! Stop. SIRI STOP!
I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do that.
What the hell?! Why?
A FISA court has approved the request for DHS override of my controls for the crime of: “replying to President Tanden’s tweet with an image of obscene animal genitals and fecal material.”
I love these shitty speculative mock-ups, reminds me of looking up "xbox 720" when I was a kid.
This car definitely screams "single button apple mouse" and I hate it
Those mouses do have right click though - it's just off be default
They might now, but I developed my hatred for Apple before the turn of the century when the mice had one big button and it felt like a child's mouse with features removed
It's been decades since any apple product wasn't "A child's X with features removed"
I really need to switch over. The only reason I put up with Window's bullshit is video games.
Could try a dual boot. The gamers say most windows stuff works fine in linux through steam but I'm not enough of a gamer to have ever tried.
I've had to get a Mac for work, and my god if it's not the most painful fucking experience coming from Linux. It took me two weeks of constant fiddling to get it usable, and even still there's a bunch of basic quality-of-life things that I've taken for granted from KDE and Gnome that just doesn't exist or barely works.
Hilariously enough I've been looking at the Asahi linux project since then because at least Apple's hardware is good, and the things they've managed to get working on it so far actually run better on Linux than MacOS simply because it's such a shitty operating system. This thing will be a beast of a laptop in 2-3 years once they've managed to reverse engineer all the underlying APIs and gotten it stable for day-to-day use.
American cars becoming APCs from anime
side note: always enjoyed the generic little hatchbacks in animes, probably one of the most practical car styles if you have to have cars
the generic little hatchbacks in animes
There should be a band called Anime Hatchback.
While I was googling I found a pic for a c/cars post - https://hexbear.net/post/195297
something like this: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/93/d9/7f/93d97fc58a2c5211ae64df907222bca2.jpg
the whole high-end suv/truck thing is very much an urban military transport vibe (see cybertruck), and going no windows would certainly be an escalation of this trend of the car being bougie tank
Apple's new car fails driver safety belt requirement due to the lack of a right click.
Wtf this is real? It looks like one of the more outlandish Onion articles.
No. It's all speculation based on patents that Apple filed in like 2016 and the image is just a fan mock-up. Some people on this site have shockingly bad media literacy lmao
The down side is that the tires come separately and you have to flip it upside down to charge it.
actually tires are included and are not replaceable. You'd have to buy a new car once they wear out
I hate apple mouses. People are smart enough to handle two click buttons.
