Apple's mystery van driving around San Fran? Don't bet on a self-driving car

Being good neighbors means looking out when something suspicious pops up in your neighborhood. That's how a local San Franciso blog came to this photo of a black Dodge Grand Caravan with an odd array of equipment cruising the neighborhood streets. Further checks revealed the owner of the van was none other than Apple — and the speculation began immediately that Apple was working on its own self-driving car technology to rival Google.

It's a nifty idea, and entirely possible that Apple would spend some of its Croesus-level cash on such a gadget. But given what we know about self-driving technology, this Mystery Machine isn't going without a driver any time soon.