Re:Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit
by ghaff on Thursday January 24, 2019 @02:27AM
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A number of researchers without vested interests have been saying this all along. But they’ve been drowned out by those many who so wanted to believe, not least of which the young urbanites who so desperately wanted to believe they would never need to buy a car and would be driven everywhere all their lives.
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Re:Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit
by TaylorAlexander on Thursday January 24, 2019 @02:58AM
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It’s true. I watched a panel discussion from maybe three years ago and those who were closest to the research, even those who were actively working on the technology, estimated 2022-2025 for a general debut and longer for the difficult cases. We may see large pilots sooner but the timing given by the experts seems properly prescient compared to all the excited people who thought we’d have the tech widely this year.