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by admiralpumpkin 3216 days ago
Apple's forte, above anyone's, is merging software and hardware. Level 5 autonomous cars align perfectly with their core competency.
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No, Apple's strength is refining, polishing, blending, and packaging existing electronic and software technologies.

Cars are more about mechanical engineering than electronics or software. Learning automotive design from scratch when you have no experience and barely any trained staff is not a trivial task.

Worse, a Level 5 autonomous car is not an existing consumer technology. At this point there's nothing to refine, and barely anything that could be bought in to start the refinement process.

Apple might as well go into house building, farming, or food products.