Apple, still not commenting on rumors about intentions to create either a car or software to automatically manage it, recently had to step out of the shadows , having received permission from the Californian authorities to test three prototypes based on the Lexus RX450h with the involvement of six test drivers.
As explained by the publication Reuters , which has access to official documents of Apple, their public version does not give any idea of the automatic control system of cars that the company is going to experience. The main part of the document is devoted to instructions for testers, who should intervene in the system at the most dangerous moments. One of the fragments of the text even mentions the presence of a "control joystick", but the use of Lexus serial crossovers at the first stage of testing certainly implies the presence of classical controls in the form of a rudder, pedals and a gear lever.
From the features of the control system, only the ability to record and save the monitored parameters is mentioned, which will help, if necessary, restore the picture of events preceding the hypothetical traffic accident. On which sensors the automatic control system is based, it is not specified, but there are certainly several cameras, like most competitors. By the way, the system is called Apple as a "platform for development." It can not be ruled out that the control algorithms developed by Apple will be offered to third-party car manufacturers. Vehicles will again be divided into two camps: Apple (iOS) vs Google (Waymo) Android?
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