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posted by cmn32480 on Friday June 16 2017, @11:41AM   Printer-friendly

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Apple's chief executive has confirmed it is developing a self-driving car system.

But Tim Cook indicated that it is too soon to say whether it would license the tech to other carmakers or try to build its own vehicles.

His interview with the Bloomberg news agency yielded his most detailed comments about the project to date.

Until now, Apple had avoided publicly discussing its plans, although it had confirmed the scheme in US filings.

There had also been leaked details of a change in leadership of the car team, with veteran hardware specialist Bob Mansfield reportedly put in charge last year, as well as images of test vehicles being published on rumour sites.

"We're focusing on autonomous systems and clearly one purpose of autonomous systems is self-driving cars - there are others," Mr Cook told Bloomberg.

"And we sort of see it as the the mother of all AI [artificial intelligence] projects.

"It's probably one of the most difficult AI projects to work on.

"We'll see where it takes us. We're not saying from a product point of view where it will take us, but we are being straightforward that it's a core technology that we view as very important."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @01:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @01:55PM (#526424)

    The amount of system integration and all the government regulations that must be satisfied to produce a modern car is huge and trying to build a new engineering team to handle all the details is time consuming.

    At the same time, FCA (Chrysler in Detroit) is on the verge of coming apart for business/management reasons. The engineering teams there are good, they are not the problem with the company. Perhaps Apple will bid for the Jeep or Dodge (minivan) divisions? I think the FCA breakup will be vehicle development and production plants a la carte.