would you buy an Apple self driving car?

No. It would cost more than it's worth, and cost even more to maintain.
If they could work out how to alert blind people of the arrival at pick up and drop off, I would ride in a self driving Apple taxi.

I'd most definitely do it. Parking would be a pain in the butt but i'm fearless so bring it. plus, it'd make me easier to take out on dates cuz I'll drive. :)

Not if it was running IOS 14.1

Until quantum computers are ready to be use, self driving cars will be a nice thing but not a reality specially in cities like Chicago, New York, and so on. I would like to have one.

I think self driving cars will eventually not only make travel a lot easier for folks who are visually impaired but will also make driving safer in general.

In fact, when I think of how poorly some of my older friends drive, I am even more convinced of the benefit of self driving cars. As people get older their reaction times slow down, their attention wanders, on coming car lights often bother them with glare, and many of them don't even look backward when they are backing up. So I don't consider self driving cars just an accessibility issue for the blind.

The most dangerous part of having self driving cars on the road these days is the presence of people driving manual cars. People are very unpredictable in their behavior, tend to get frustrated and take erratic and unpredictable actions, and are also prone to the issues cited above. The result is that self driving cars that follow strict algorithms of behavior can easily get confused thinking that all of the other cars on the road will be acting logically.

Eventually all cars on the road will ideally have sensors that enable them to talk with each other to optimize their paths and know what all the other cars on the road are doing and where they intend on being in the next seconds. Thus each car will know when and where another car intends to turn, go through a cross street, etc. We're not quite there yet but this day is coming in the not to distant future.

If you read up on the history of elevators you will see that people had the exact same reluctance about automated elevators in the early days as they do about self driving cars. The early elevators used to have people driving them up and down and stopping at each floor. People were fearful of getting into an elevator without an elevator operator to control the system. We can't even imagine how that was but now it is perfectly normal to just get into an elevator and have confidence that you won't die!

Anyway, I'm sure the time will come when self driving cars will seem just as natural and safe.

--Pete

If Siri is driving? hell no!

On a more serious note, I think we still have a way to go before we have self driving vehicles.

I don't think it would work if the road had a mix of both.

We can't have self driving vehicles on the road while there are human drivers.

It's like one of the posts said, things are already complicated enough.

Now if they were all fully automated, and they can talk to each other, and all we had to do is sit back and enjoy the ride, then, and only then will I consider a self driving vehicle.

I just can't see humans giving up their control just for the sake of a self driving car. Some people are just... shall we say... too much alive. To answer the question, if the car can deal with human quirks, why not?

I don't think self driving cars, from Apple or anyone else, are right around the corner, but I think they are coming. I would ride in one. As others have said, I have had some very scary rides with humans behind the wheel, and I figure a fully approved self driving car would not be worse. The networking of cars would make a major safety improvement. Currently driver's broadcast their intentions to turn with turn signals,. But some do, some don't. Some turn them on much too soon, and some as they are rounding the corner. Automated cars would know where another car is going to turn, and when.

The major gains come when all cars are automatic, but even in the short term, and in situations where applicable, there are safety and environmental gains to be made.

All that said, I don't see me owning one. They would be more than I could afford, and so long as I could hail one with my phone and expect it to arrive in a timely manner, I don't need to own it.

Hello everyone. this is a great idea! I love cars and enjoy ride in them. Yes the car would be very expensive, but I will figure something out. I love apple.

This is a good question, and one that I haven't heard discussed much among the blindness community. I can't decide whether or not I'd own one, I've been going back and forth on this for a while. In many instances though, I'd ride in one though. My biggest concern isn't actually driving, but making sure the car is located where it needs to be. For instance, let's say you are going to a large business park. When I have to call an Uber driver who is picking me up, or verbally tell a driver dropping me off exactly where I need to be, that's a situation where I wouldn't trust a self-driving car.

I'd use an Apple self-driver if it were designed for sighted users. It would be high-quality, feature-rich, and comfortable. But if it were designed for blind users, it would be buggy, the user interface would change with every release, and it would constantly mispronounce"Main Street" as "Main Saint".

The short answer is no! Knowing Apple, it would be ridiculously expensive and impossible to repair. Let's also not forget that it wouldn't talk to anything else besides other Apple cars because of Apple's obsession with proprietary products. I wouldn't be surprised if it became obsolete in 4 years because Apple is great at playing the planned obsolescence game.

Would I buy it because it's Apple? No. Would i expect it to be perfect, absolutely not. In truth, Apple is losing sight of who they are faster then the pandemic. they have so much new stuff out, that developing this along with the car play thing, the watch, they don't really want to do anything but keep putting out flashy over-priced product. In truth, the car would probably be obselete faster then it would take the person to save up money to buy it.