RIP to the Apple Car, we hardly knew ye

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In 2017, Apple CEO Tim Cook sat down and confirmed what the global auto industry had long feared: the tech giant was working on a driverless car.“We’re focusing on autonomous systems. And clearly, one purpose of autonomous systems are self-driving cars,” Cook said in an interview with Bloomberg. “And we sort of see it as the mother of all AI projects. It’s probably one of the most difficult AI projects actually to work on and