Apple-Boss Cook confirmed car project - but it will be different than you think

At the latest since 2014 is speculation about a car from Apple
Now, Group CEO Tim Cook confirmed although a vehicle project - but the focus is on the software for robot cars
Apple's car comes - and it will be different than the tech scene has speculated for years.

Because Apple CEO Tim Cook said on Tuesday that the iPhone group has aligned his mistery car project on the development of robot car technology.

"We focus on autonomous systems," Cook told the TV channel of the Bloomberg financial service. "It is a core technology, which we consider to be very important." At the same time, it was one of the biggest challenges for artificial intelligence.

For years now there is speculation about the Apple car

The tech scene had speculated for years about the mythical Project Titan. Already Apple founder of Steve Jobs was a manager of the group according to the AppleCar.

The rumors boiled over on really, as Apple in recent years had more than 1000 employees, including numerous experts from the auto industry, for the electronically-propelled Apple car and built around the world research institutions - including one in Berlin.

The focus was however diverted according to media reports already in the past year in the development of software for autonomous vehicles. Several hundred employees, the project should have left then.

Cook is facing drastic to custom in autonomous driving

This spring, Apple got the permission for testing self-propelled cars in California, and later also a converted Lexus SUV of the Group on the road was photographed.

Cook stressed that he saw the car business before a dramatic break through autonomous driving, electric drives and transport services. "The change runs from three directions at the same time." Apple had taken part in the Chinese Service intermediary Didi Chuxing last year in an unusual for the Corporation investment with a billion dollars.
Source:huffpost.de