The comments here are rather disappointing. It doesn't have manual controls? Well thats the point! I want to leave my crap in it and paint it some ugly color? Get with the times, young people already opt to not own cars. I can't double park in the city? Why are you imposing your steel box on people living in cities, many of which do not own cars and want walkable streets?

I mean, this is the news website for a startup accelerator. If you are on here, have some appreciation for new ways of doing things. To disrupt the status quo is the very goal. If you ask for perfection from day one, we will never get anywhere.

These cars have the potential to massively reduce traffic fatalities (one of the biggest remaining killers) and make cities useful again to the people that actually live in them.

When Microsoft did the same thing in Windows it was grounds for anti-trust lawsuits to be brought against them:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/101947/microsoft-used-undocument...

The idea here is that if you are supplying both the operating system and the applications that your applications should not benefit from being made by the same company as the OS, in other words, that it should be a level playing ground without you having an unfair advantage.

It's totally reasonable for Apple to use APIs internally that it's not ready to make public -- making an API public is a serious decision with lots of downsides! You've got to support the API forever, and future design directions are constrained.

To expect Apple to make all code it uses internally available publicly is silly.

(If you want some great examples of the extreme amount of work it can be to support legacy APIs, and why it's really important to prevent devs from using private APIs, check out Raymond Chen's blog.)