Posted on 05/21/2022 10:01:35 AM PDT by simpson96
To clarify, and to remove any doubt as to whom exactly is being recognized, we are naming Apple Inc. as the week’s top knucklehead. Should we therefore pluralize the honor by calling them “knuckleheads of the week?” Or should we simply consider Apple Inc. to be a singular entity and therefore just one big “knucklehead?” We’ll leave that detail for others to decide.
As one might expect with a product from Apple, their new “concept” vehicle is full of bells and whistles, many of which Apple has understandably submitted for patent protection. It’s an electric vehicle, naturally, and one of the more groundbreaking aspects of the car is it autonomous driving functionality. Self-driving vehicles have already been in production for several years, but we can only imagine the new dimensions to which Apple has taken those ideas.
Additionally, according to VR Scout, Apple is counting on its virtual-reality centric entertainment system to be a major selling point:
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Therefore, we’re left to ask the following: Exactly why does Apple and the two companies they’ve worked with to produce this vehicle – Concept Creator and Letsgodigital – think it’s a good idea to try and market a vehicle that’s sure to cost six-figures yet requires passengers to sit in what amounts to a claustrophobic, panic-inducing coffin? Comfortable seats and cool entertainment options aside, do they really think folks are going to want to seal themselves into a windowless vault for their daily commute?
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No, I think that as you said the battery should be okay but when a battery is still connected to the car body it’s part of a circuit. I suspect that might result in a momentary surge being applied to a battery during an EMF, Potentially damaging the battery. But disconnecting a battery, or even having a spare sitting around, should nullify any such danger.
Aside: imagine the shock to Americans having to live without smart phones for even an hour?
German engineers to the original seven astronauts: “Vindows? Vy vould you need vindows?” I detect the same reformed (?) Nazi mentality here at Apfel.
Aside: imagine the shock to Americans having to live without smart phones for even an hour?
Pandemonium! Utter chaos!
Wouldn't mean a thing to me. I was forced to get a smartphone when the network was upgraded to 3g and another one when it went to 4g. I only use it to call and text and rarely that.
I understand that I can now get a basic flip phone in 4g without all the computer/internet crapola. That will be my next one and an easily removable battery will be a requirement. Time to downgrade the tech.
I just got an empty, small square box.
It was a smiley face.
It looks like a computer mouse. Even then, it lacks buttons.
Obviously, it’s Disaster Area’s stunt car.
“It’s the wild color scheme that freaks me,” said Zaphod, whose love affair with this ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight. “Every time you try to operate one of these weird black controls that are labeled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up to let you know you’ve done it. What is this? Some kind of galactic hyperhearse?”
I don’t even carry my old flip phone.
Best reason I’ve seen yet to keep & maintain my ‘05 Buick. This Apple thing must have been designed by corporate idiots. I wouldn’t touch it with THEIR hands even if I could.
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Thanks.
OKAY, Luddites of FR, have at.
You enjoy.
I saw a video clip of a guy with VR on in his living room kicking the coffee table as hard as he could.
Now that’s entertainment.
LOL
The blind leading the blind.
Nice looking car. Now where do I hang my girl's panteee---
Please, I don’t even want to think about a Windows Car.
The Blue Screen of Death will be literal.
I HATE articles that take SEVEN PARAGRAPHS of word salad to get the the main point of the complaint.
The article could just as well said, “Apple’s new AI driving gizmo car has NO windows - Who wants to ride around in a coffin?” But then there’d be no article, would there?
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