<story><title>Apple buys autonomous driving company Drive.ai</title><url>https://www.axios.com/apple-buy-driveai-753da17d-60fe-44f9-84ff-1d2d82cd0b81.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>Apple pretty consistently pays bottom dollar for acquisitions, and typically does an acquihire which results in the former company&amp;#x27;s product being deep sixed.  So this looks like an autonomous driving skill acquisition, but for all we know the remaining team will be purposed to guessing where you are by dead-reckoning on your phone, or improving Photos&amp;#x27; judgement or who knows.&lt;p&gt;In fact the only case I can remember when they &lt;i&gt;didn&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; do this was with the liquid metal company, and that one didn&amp;#x27;t pan out.  (there are presumably others but I don&amp;#x27;t recall any off the top of my head.).&lt;p&gt;They have bought a few products, like iTunes, without buying the company.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple buys autonomous driving company Drive.ai</title><url>https://www.axios.com/apple-buy-driveai-753da17d-60fe-44f9-84ff-1d2d82cd0b81.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>&amp;gt; Why it matters: The deal and hires confirm that Apple hasn&amp;#x27;t given up its autonomous driving project.&lt;p&gt;I think the first sign was the near continuous sightings of Apple’s self driving cars in Cupertino. At one point i literally saw four of them at the intersection of Homestead and Wolfe (next to the spaceship), one going in each direction.</text></comment>