{"id":1852,"date":"2015-02-13T09:46:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T09:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukcarline.co.uk\/news\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2015-02-13T09:46:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T09:46:53","slug":"apple-making-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukcarline.co.uk\/news\/apple-making-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Apple Making a Car?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Are Apple Making a Car?<\/h1>\n

Just over a week ago, Business Insider reported<\/a> a camera-mounted van being spotted in San Francisco and how it was apparently registered to Apple. This naturally led to speculation that Apple were developing their own version of Google Street View, or even their own self driving car.<\/p>\n

Business Insider dug a little deeper<\/a>, and received an email from an Apple employee about \u201cvehicle development\u201d, and learned that apple had been poaching employees from Tesla \u2013 the number one pioneers of electric car technology (Mac Observer<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Steve Jobs had lived, he was gonna design an iCar,\u201d said Apple board member Mickey Drexler last year (Business Insider<\/a>) \u2013 which definitely suggests an iCar is something Apple have considered in the past.<\/p>\n

Apple\u2019s involvement in smartphones forced every other phone manufacturer to up their game \u2013 here\u2019s hoping they, if all this is true, have the same effect on the already pretty exciting car industry.<\/p>\n

If you want a bit of a chuckle, here\u2019s 10 reasons to hope Apple isn\u2019t making a car<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are Apple Making a Car? Just over a week ago, Business Insider reported a camera-mounted van being spotted in San Francisco and how it was apparently registered to Apple. This naturally led to speculation that Apple were developing their own version of Google Street View,
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