Apple has been granted a patent (10,479,413) for a vehicle floor.
Dennis Sellers for Apple World Today:
In the patent info, the tech giant says “it would be advantageous to provide a floor structure” for an automobile that distributes forces from outboard impacts and/or minimizes a height thereof to maximize space for other uses (e.g., battery storage).
MacDailyNews Take: You know, because Apple’s not working on a vehicle. 😉
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That is what Apple do best: think outside the box. In this case the box is a car.
From the ground up …..
Apple’s not working on a vehicle… and Jeffery Epstein didn’t kill himself.
Apple’s got it right. That’s one feature I always look for in a car.
I’m assuming either battery or hydrogen. It will be interesting to see which one it is.
I currently think hydrogen is the best answer for the future. But I could be wrong.
So design a floor that lets batteries store energy AND be shock absorbers for a crash? 🤪
Maybe Jobs’ whole cars vs. trucks analogy wasn’t an analogy : )