Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
by jacquesm on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @12:56PM
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> tried globular wheels, fat wheels, thinner wheels, wooden wheels, and what have you to see what works better
Yes, and 'standard wheels' would have saved them time, money and other resources and would have increased the chances of bringing a self driving car to market.
Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
by coldtea on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @02:04PM
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>Yes, and 'standard wheels' would have saved them time, money and other resources
Time from what? It's not some team considering other kinds of wheels was holding back their self-driving researchers...
You seem to have an overly linear and heavy-first concept of how such a development should go.
We don't know that. We just know that we're not familiar with them. If anything, globular wheels could make some kind of automated steering easier.
And of course, it's obviously not like Apple only tried that design: they tried globular wheels, fat wheels, thinner wheels, wooden wheels, and what have you to see what works better -- like they did when they designed the iPhone, etc.
https://www.cultofmac.com/181782/every-iphone-prototype-appl...
https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/6/14188624/apple-prototype-i...