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"Apple shows up to Drive.ai liquidation sale" would be more informative. A small number of employees and some assets were brought over.

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Well, at least Drive.ai's creditors have a good chance of being paid. It's not yet clear if the "mass layoffs" planned for Friday will still happen.[1]

Does anybody, anywhere, have a reliable self-driving car in use on public streets without a "safety driver"? Waymo did briefly, but backed off.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/25/18758820/drive-ai-self-dr...

Is Waymo not driving fully autonomous in Phoenix still?

Edit: It looks like they aren't [1]

1: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18536003/waymo-lyft-self-d...

No.

Thinking of the liability and the bad press had there is one accident occurred... Unless self-driving had been proven super reliable and all the regulation and liability had been sorted out like it is the case with aviation, I don't think any sane companies will risk that much.

Worth it for the domain name.

I think Apple is holding out for i.Drive instead. :)

Joke is great but raises a serious (well, non-joking) question.

iDrive is a brand used by a German car company (BMW? Audi?).

When the iPhone launched, it turned out after launch that Cisco owned the trademark.

When Apple got going they had a trademark dispute with Apple Records (the Beatles' publishing company) which was easily settled as Apple in California was clearly a computer company....until decades later they launched Apple Music.

So...your joke may not be off the mark.

Maybe iTDrives

Humanless Horseless Carriage

You make me wnoder where the self-driving horse-and-buggies are.

New Apple products simply use the company's name followed by the generic name for the product. So, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Apple Pay, etc. Makes it almost impossible for another company to squat on a future product name

Yeah, they've been pretty deliberate about moving away from 'i' names lately. In macOS Catalina, even iTunes will be gone, replaced by Music.app. iMessage -> Messages, iBooks -> Books, etc. iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, iMac are the biggest holdouts, and they haven't named a new product iSomething for many years now.

Indeed. i is over.

Actually, iPadOS is perhaps a counter-example. But maybe they had no choice to keep name symmetry there.

I would say that iPadOS is the exception that proves the rule. The only reason it starts with an 'i' is because it's name derives directly from a 10 year old product.

I was not familiar with this expression "exception that proves the rule," but I agree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule

I phone, you drive — and by “you” I mean the car, driving itself.

They should name it uDrive.

Or Drive.me

iDrive is a BMW Brand.

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