Siri for Self-Drive Cars: Genius or Patenting the Obvious? - ExtremeTech

This project may be Apple's fallback to building its own car. From 2014 to 2019, roughly, Apple's Project Titan was a ground-up autonomous, electrified vehicle project. Apple found out that building a car is enormously complex, there are regulatory hurdles to clear far tougher than for phones or PCs, and you can't build a world-class auto factory in a couple of years. Apple also found out that not everyone wants to run a contract factory for Apple, including BMW and Daimler, and if there was an agreement, divorce court would have followed closely. Too many egos and everyone would want the final say.