Apple has long believed in a very 'secrecy' style of work that prohibits the exposure of any product prior to its release, but the tradition may be abandoned in the area of autonomous driving.
For the first time, Apple released its progress on autopilot technology in an essay on the arxiv, an online academic magazine. For Apple's move, external analysts believe that in the face of the challenges posed by artificial intelligence and autonomous driving, Apple relies solely on Itself can not be resolved.Apple published in the publication of its own new self-driving technology, in the future is conducive to more tests.
Apple leased Arizona Auto Testing Ground for testing autonomous vehicles According to the latest news from foreign media, Apple began testing its own autopilot technology at a car-specific test site in Arizona, USA and recently started to recruit related work personnel.
Quotes from insiders in the U.S. auto industry news site Jalopnik quoted sources as saying that it is very likely that Apple will rent a car test site owned by Fiat Chrysler in Arizona to test its autopilot more completely.
It is reported that Apple leased the test site, has been used by Chrysler to test the impact of high temperature environment for cars and parts.According to visitors who visited the test site, this venue has a variety of road conditions, such as flat roads, high-speed elliptical Shaped lanes, steep steps, and hot and humid conditions such as road conditions.
Apple leased Arizona Auto Testing Ground for testing autonomous vehicles In addition, according to sources, Apple has been recruiting test engineers and technicians from other car test sites in Arizona over the past few months, and Apple has shown during the recruitment process that it needs to test autopilot technology.
The move against Apple, the foreign media pointed out that in the automatic driving technology, Apple in the data accumulation, artificial intelligence and other fields lags far behind rivals, these gaps need to rely on time to catch up.
Currently, Apple and Fiat-Chrysler have not responded to the news of tests of autonomous driving technology in Arizona.
