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Documents reveal Apple is building a self-driving car in Silicon Valley.
Updated : Mar 12, 2018, 03:09 AM IST
Documents obtained by The Guardian reveal Apple is building a self-driving car in Silicon Valley. A report by The Guardian reveals Apple is currently scouting locations in San Francisco Bay to test out its new creation. The project is code-named Project Titan.
Apple has been rumoured to be working on a self-driving electric car for years. However for it is the first time that documents as its evidence have been obtained. Apart from the documents, Apple has hinted it is leaning towards breaking into the automobile industry.
Apple senior vice president of operations, Jeff Williams said “the car is the ultimate mobile device”, at a conference in May. Marc Newson, Apple designer criticised the modern automobile industry’s design choices in an interview published by The Wall Street Journal. Newton stated the automobile design is currently “at the bottom of a trough”.
Apple has not yet confirmed or denied if Project Titan does exist. Several companies like Google are working on self-driving cars.
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