Psychology is really interesting. "half a decade away" sounds like a really long time, but "5 years away" sounds much shorter.
It's an intriguing editorial choice.
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Apple's car is at least the lesser part of a century away.
And 5 years in automotive is less than one full redesign cycle for a platform. So, it's not long at all in automotive speak.
I thought the same... 5 years ago was only the iPhone 6S era.
I think it’s referencing some unreliable rumors they were launching this year though
This is the first thing that came to my mind reading the headline as well. I'm sure Apple has a head start on R&D and of course they are an amazing organization with plenty of resources but overcoming the engineering challenges required to implement a self-driving electric car in 5 years is optimistic to my mind.