That Apple is working on something around autonomous vehicles, the sparrows on the roof are whispering not only in Sillicon Valley. We managed to find out information directly from one of the important shareholders of the company Apple, who, thanks to the number of shares he owns, is invited directly to the company headquarters from time to time Apple. Although the company never reveals anything about what it is planning to anyone except the closest team of people working on a new project, if you know people directly from the top management, which is true in the case of this person, at least they will sometimes give you a hint.
Apple According to him, he is not working on his own autonomous vehicle, nor is he trying to convince automakers to implement his solution in their cars, as he has had it there for a long time. The entire Titan project, as the development of autonomous cars was originally called by journalists, is nothing more than an update CarPlay, but such an extremely significant update that it is AppHundreds of people are donating. Apple should come with expanded functionality in the future CarPlay, which turns your car equipped with this feature into a semi-autonomous vehicle. The vast majority of vehicles that have it today CarPlay It also offers parking sensors, cameras, 360-degree cameras, adaptive cruise control, blind spot monitoring, and automatic parking, for example.
Interior and system concept in Apple Car from the designer Matías Papalini:
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And it is precisely these gadgets, which are increasingly common even in mid-range cars, that he wants Apple use and connect together with vehicle manufacturers directly to CarPlay, which then, thanks to special chips and software, can turn the vehicle into a partially autonomous car. Of course, at the moment, no one except AppWe don't know what such a car can do or what it will offer us, but it follows from the logic of things that this solution is much more realistic than if we were to Apple built, sold and distributed its own vehicles. CarPlay should become the biggest and most revolutionary innovation in the coming years Apple will bring
