At Apple, they are determined to launch the result of Project Titan and to mark a before and after in the way we move. According to Mark Gurman in Bloomberg, the company could launch the Apple car in the next four years, which places us in 2025.
A truly titanic project
We have long been talking about the Apple Car and the Titan project, which gives it shape. Apple has been working for years on what is the ultimate mobility device: the electric car. A car that has shown signs of complete evaporation on several occasions, but has endured and persevered to start curdling into a real product
Apple Inc. is working to accelerate the development of its electric car and refocus the project on fully autonomous driving capabilities, according to people familiar with the matter, in an effort to solve a technical challenge that has been a nightmare for the company. ‘automobile industry. “
Currently, Apple Car is under the leadership of Kevin Lynch, Director of Apple Watch, and aims to officially arrive in 2025. The executive insisted on moving away from a semi-autonomous driving system, limited to steering and acceleration, to focus on a fully autonomous driving system, which does not require human intervention.
Apple is internally aiming for a self-driving car launch in four years, faster than the five- to seven-year timeline some engineers predicted earlier this year. But the timeline is flexible and achieving that 2025 target depends on the the company’s ability to complete the autonomous driving system, an ambitious task on this schedule. “
“Over the past few years, Apple’s automotive team had explored two simultaneous avenues: creating a model with limited autonomous driving capabilities focused on steering and acceleration, similar to most current Tesla Inc. cars,” or a version with full autonomous driving capability that does not require human intervention. “
A fully autonomous car thanks, in part, to the power of Apple’s silicon processors.
“Under the leadership of the new effort leader Kevin Lynch, the manager of Apple Watch software, engineers are now focusing on the second option. Lynch is pushing for a car with a fully autonomous driving system in the first version, the companies said. who asked not to be identified because decisions are private. “
Apple’s ambitions in this area are really high. Remember, however, that Apple offers testing autonomous vehicles on the streets and highways of California for a long time, which allowed them to create an artificial intelligence model for autonomous driving.
It’s hard to believe that we will be able to get behind the wheel, or perhaps without the wheel, of an Apple Car in 2025. Apparently much of the optimism right now stems from Apple’s success with its processors. Processors that will allow the execution of much more efficient and powerful models and that would give the car the fully autonomous drive that we all expect.
