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Why does Apple need its cars to be autonomous to do well in this space? There are plenty of people who would drive an Apple electric car even if it doesn't drive itself.

And since when was Apple any good at building the platform for someone else's hardware? Motorola ROKR E1? Apple CarPlay?

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> There are plenty of people who would drive an Apple electric car even if it doesn't drive itself.

I don't think that that's true.

Because so few non-autonomous cars are sold per year?

We are talking about theoretically?

It depends when the car is going to be released. In 2020 self-driving may be a must-have feature.

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