Is Apple going to make a car?

Is Apple going to make a car?

Any truth in the rumour that Apple has a design out for a new car?

Our answer:

Hi Josef,

Yes, and then again possibly no. My colleague Dave Humphreys has written more fully about this over on the CompleteCar.ie website (http://www.completecar.ie/news/article/4426/Could-the-Apple-Car-be-coming), but the short version is this:
 
Apple is keen to break into the car industry, although whether this is as a fully-fledged builder of its own cars or as a supplier of in-car entertainment systems or of autonomous, self-driving robot car systems - no-one quite knows.

What we do know is that Apple is hiring some very talented and senior car industry people, and presumably it's not doing that just for fun. Rumour has it that we'll shortly see an Apple electric car prototype but whether that's going to be a preview of a full production model, or as a one-off technology demonstrator, again no-one knows. 

Shane O'Donoghue

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