With you, the “Apple autonomous car” strolling the streets of California! [atualizado]

A few days ago we commented that Apple won a permit to test autonomous cars on the streets of California. Then, we found that the license itself for the company to test its system / software, since it only covers tests on a single car model (the Lexus RX450h) even some information from that autonomous system from Apple has already leaked, say . Behold, the car was finally spotted on California streets!

Lexus RX450h equipped to run the system for Apple autonomous cars

As we can see, the device both at the top and at the front / rear of the Lexus RX450h in the small, no. The list includes an HDL-64E LiDAR sensor (from Velodyne), at least two radars and a series of cameras. It is clear that, at least at this stage of the Apple project, the company is still pinning hardware from several vendors and assembling an exoskeleton rather than creating its own solutions. In other words, the focus is really on the software, not on the hardware.

Lexus RX450h equipped to run the system for Apple autonomous cars

If that changes at any point during the tests, we have no way of knowing. The company's irrefutable history, however, shows us that it always (or in the vast majority of times) prefers to wrap its software with proprietary hardware, creating such a synergy that we see little in the markets for computers, tablets, smartphones, smartwatches, etc. .

For you, are we facing an initiative involving “only” a software / system platform for autonomous cars or will Apple create its own car as the end product of all this? The comments are there for that! 😉

via 9to5Mac

Update by Rafael Fischmann 05/22/2017 s 14:42

Almost a month later, today a reader of MacRumors managed to capture a quick video of the car walking around Palo Alto:

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