Who wants to sit in an Apple iCar?
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. — So what would it be like to sit in a self-driving car designed by Apple? How many apps would be at our disposal? And what would the car look like?
In the wake of a new round of reports Friday about device maker Apple reportedly designing a self-driving car for the future, we went out and got reaction from consumers.
What would they think of sitting behind the wheel of an iCar?
“If it’s going to drive me, I'm all for it,” said Lydia Price, of Carson.
“It would be terrifying at first, because you wouldn’t have any control,” said Corey Protzman, of Long Beach. “I’d be scared it would do something I didn’t want it to do, and I couldn’t stop it.”
Katie Gin, of Redondo Beach, agreed but is enthused about Apple style in a car. “It would be way more comfortable,” she said. “I could probably stretch out and do yoga.”
For Brad Kachigan of Long Beach the idea of using Siri, Apple’s personal digital assistant, to drive him around has its drawbacks.
“I’m not a big fan of Siri,” he says. “Whenever I say something, she comes back and says a smart remark.”
He thinks older drivers will get a kick out of a self-driving car, but if the world turns to only automated cars, “that’s bad for younger drivers who need to learn how to drive.”
The people we spoke to out here on a hot summer day expected to see lots of apps in the dashboard of an iCar, highlighted by navigation and music.
But Brad Anderson, fresh out of the water on a Saturday morning, thinks Apple is wasting its time.
“They should just copy the Tesla,” he said. “That’s the best.”
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