On the video lit self-controlled 🍎 car with a bulky construction on the roof

Long-circulating rumors that Apple is developing a self-managed car, received another confirmation. In the service of microblogging Twitter was published a video, which allegedly captured such a vehicle. The video is hosted by McCallister Higgins, the co-founder of the Voyage start-up, which also works in the field of self-governing cars.

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The vehicle illuminated in the video differs from that found earlier in the camera lenses. The design of the sensors on the roof is completely different. It is reported that the car is equipped with standard third-party sensors and hardware solutions, including six Velodyne lidars, several radars and cameras. All of them are enclosed in white plastic casings.

This vehicle is strikingly different from a self-managed car, created by Waymo. The latter tries in every possible way to minimize and make the sensors used to be streamlined so that they do not stand out particularly on the vehicle's hull. In contrast, Apple uses a bulky projecting design.

Moreover, McCallister Higgins assures that the computing unit is also located in the structure on the roof of the self-controlled car - together with the sensors. Other companies engaged in the development of self-guided vehicles, try to place computing systems in the luggage compartment.

17 October

Going to need more than 140 characters to go over 🍎's Project Titan. I call it "The Thing"

I saw one of these a few weeks ago pull up to an Apple shuttle stop-sit there for a few then drove off.

5:25 - 18 Oct. 2017

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Note, initially Apple planned to develop its own self-managed car from scratch. But then she changed her mind and decided to start developing appropriate technologies for third-party automakers. Later, Tim Cook confirmed that the company will focus its efforts on autonomous systems, rather than on cars.

Source: The Verge