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Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car by Animats on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @01:40AM (#15078803)
A team within Titan investigated the possibility of using spherical wheels — round like a globe — instead of the traditional, round ones, because spherical wheels could allow the car better lateral movement.”

Somebody liked the Audi RSQ from Minority Report.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_RSQ

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Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car by aiiane on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:54AM (#15079738)
As the page you linked indicates, the Audi RSQ was from I, Robot. The car in Minority Report was a Lexus 2054 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexus_2054). :)
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