Self- driving test Apple cars increase in number
The company wanted to keep the project under wraps but had to announce it last year.
The Cupertino-based tech giant is finally opening up about autonomous platform development.
Apple seems to be finally ready to unveil its self-driving platform, which was scheduled to hit the roads last April. According to a report of Bloomberg, the feet strength, which was restricted to only three, has now gone up to 27 vehicles, which are Lexus RX450h hybrid SUVs.
The company had initially desired to build a vehicle from scratch under their leadership (and under their ‘secretive’ project Titan). But all they could manage is restricting themselves to the self-driving technology and then pitch the same to the companies as they couldn’t spend time building their own platform.
While Apple had successfully kept their project ‘under wraps’, but a DMV approval is needed in California for introducing any new kind of automobile and that, of course led to the disclosure. And although the company has continuously denied any kind of ‘secret’ project, once their name appeared on the DMV list, there was no way the company could diss the very existence of a project like that. And maybe that prompted CEO Tim Cook to admit that the company was working on an autonomous platform.