Apple cancels car project

https://lemmy.ml/post/12491972

Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Ending Decadelong Effort - Lemmy

Shifts team to generative AI.

If your car development team can be transferred to AI developed you weren’t building much of a car.

Skilled developers can easily transition to another field of software engineering.
Even in 2024, there’s still a lot of non-software (automotive) engineering involved in building a car – even an electric one.
SDA - software defined automobile

Stop I’m unironically excited for this distant possibility.

I’m already impressed by how much the UI for cars have been separatedfromm mechanical systems.

Electric cars have a lot more tunability from a software view too. Clearly there is a plenty of real world between the chips and where the rubber meets the road too.

So I get a free car and the owner gets to keep the original? Like hell I wouldn’t.