Apple has long been suspected of working on his own autonomous vehicle, or rather, on a project that the CEO Tim Cook called the “mother of all AI.” From time to time, there is news about Apple’s autonomous technology, and a few days ago the Cupertino company received a patent for an autonomous navigation system, which only fueled further discussion about whether Apple is he actually working on his own vehicle, or is he just developing a system for self-driving vehicles.
Apple filed a patent application Thursday with the US Patent and Trademark Office. According to speculation Apple has been working on autonomous technology since 2015, but the question remains when it will become a reality and when it will appear in the first self-driving vehicles.onem.
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The tech giant has not commented on the patent, but the patent itself provides a glimpse of how the navigation system could work.
The main goal of the patent is to make navigation systems for autonomous vehicles more efficient. Currently, most companies working on a similar project try to get as many detailed maps as possible, which, however, is not possible Apple trying to change.
The navigation technologies used in autonomous vehicles depend on maps and sensors that monitor elements of the real world that change day by day. The vehicles can thus deal with intensive computing loads. Apple but he does not think that this principle is good enough. As stated by the server CNBC, the Cupertino giant designs a system that “controls the car independently of any data received from any device outside the vehicle and any navigation data stored locally in the vehicle prior to any navigation monitoring”.
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It is essentially a more refined computer model for controlling autonomous vehicles that will use powerful sensors and processors. The system would be able to accurately predict routes. The CNBC server was trying to make contact Apple, to get more information, but to no avail. Apple did not comment on the patent, so we have no idea if the mentioned navigation system will one day become a reality.
