Who says you need to own the thing yourself? If you could summon one in
10 minutes at will using an app from a fleet stored somewhere close by,
wouldn't that suffice? Most cars sit most of the time so they should be
a shared resource. The trouble is usually the last mile getting a taxi
to your door or getting to the nearest bus/metro stop. A self driving
car could eliminate that incentive for people keeping (one or more)
vehicles parked at their house. Of course Apple would have to include
the iClean service which makes sure any mess left by the previous
passenger was taken care of.
CB
On 9/21/15 9:03 AM, Scott Granados wrote:
Dona, the bigger question is can we afford not to have it? Even if it’s 100K
the point is you’ll work it out. Whether it’s interest free loans for the
blind or regular interest loans from the auto market you’ll make it work.
Costs will be high at first but they will drop and they will drop quickly
because these aren’t devices for just the blind, it’s for everyone so the mass
market and mass production economies of scale come in to play. Even if it’s
100K though I for one would save up and finance what I couldn’t cover.
On Sep 18, 2015, at 1:56 PM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote:
then the question will be can any of us afford it. :)
Cheers,
Donna
On Sep 18, 2015, at 10:14 AM, Pete Nalda <[email protected]> wrote:
With the success Google is having, it won't be long until we see one from
Apple. Google's testing here in Austin without incident.
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On Sep 18, 2015, at 8:01 AM, Scott Granados <[email protected]> wrote:
Dona, has anyone described to you what this prototype car looks like? There
were some photos leaked a while back, who knows since they are rumors but they
basically had a pod that had 4 wheels (it’s not a 3 wheeler like some models)
and it had no (0) windows. Think about that for a minute. What it did have
were screens and cameras and a ton of autonomous driving features.
You’d also be interested in what Google is doing. They have already had
blind folks operating their autonomous vehicles for a while now. I believe
that one of the engineers on the project is blind but I haven’t been able to
come up with a name. I saw a special on CNBC about a year ago and can’t recall
the gentleman’s name they had who was using the car to get to and from work and
to the store etc. It would drop him off in front of the grocery store door,
he’d do his thing and come out and hit a key fob that would summon the car that
had parked it self and it pulled up and picked him up.
Never thought I’d see it in my lifetime, shocks me how far along they actually
are. Google has made massive steps forward in machine vision.
On Sep 18, 2015, at 8:21 AM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
I just saw this on MacRumors and thought you guys would be interested if you
haven't seen it. I sooooooooooo want to be a test driver!
http://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/18/apple-met-california-dmv-autonomous-vehicle/?utm_source=osx&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=front
Cheers,
Donna
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