IS APPLE DEVELOPING ITS OWN SELF-DRIVING CAR?
Chief Executive Tim Cook has suggested that Apple wants to move beyond integration of Apple smartphones into vehicle infotainment systems.
Apple officially secured a permit to test autonomous vehicles in California on April 14, 2018.
Rumours have been sweeping the web since the year prior that Apple was toying with the idea of developing its own self-driving car.
But Apple executives have been coy about their interest in the vehicles.
Chief Executive Tim Cook has suggested that Apple wants to move beyond integration of Apple smartphones into vehicle infotainment systems.
He has called autonomous vehicles the 'mother of all' artificial intelligence projects.
Apple's secretive fleet of 'Project Titan' self-driving cars has almost doubled in the first few months of 2018.
It expanded its self-driving test fleet from 27 vehicles to more than 50 cars and is testing some of them in California.
There has been no public announcement as to if the company will be creating their own vehicles, but Cook did say in 2017 that Apple will be focusing on software for pre-existing vehicles.
One of Apple's self-driving test cars, called 'The Thing,' has six LIDAR — or light detection and ranging — sensors situated on top to help the car 'see' its surroundings.
A wider roll-out has yet to be announced.
Apple has established a partnership with Volkswagen to develop self driving vans to shuttle Apple employees around its campus.
In self-driving cars, LIDAR sensors constantly scan the surrounding areas looking for information and acting as the 'eyes' of the car
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