Patents, research, and rumors: Everything the Apple Car was going to be

Apple spent billions of dollars and very many years before abandoning the Apple Car — and we now know so much about what it would have been like.
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There has not been a single word from Apple about it working on an Apple Car, nor about it cancelling the project entirely. It would be as if nothing had ever happened, except that the company filed very many patent applications about its features.Apple also had to conform to certain re