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> Jony Ive, Apple’s chief design officer, wanted to pursue a self-driving car, which members of the software team said could be done.

No one seems to realize how fantastically difficult self-driving is until they are deep into it. Apple, Cruise, and Tesla all seem to have made this mistake.

It's a shame that Apple won't be dumping its substantial resources into self-driving, because we'd all be better off if there were a viable competitor to Waymo (who now seems uncatchable).