Less than a fortnight after it was confirmed that, indeed, Apple is testing out self-driving cars, it appears we have our first look at what the iPhone maker is taking on the road.
A white Lexus RX450h SUV was spotted leaving an Apple facility in Silicon Valley, sporting sensors, cameras, and other gear used in autonomous driving research, as seen by a person who sent the the information and images to Bloomberg.
Of course, Apple loves to keep its projects in the darkest of dark until its time for an official unveiling (see also: Apple’s supposed interest in VR) so there’s no telling if Apple is planning to get into the automotive game or just make its own self-driving software for other manufacturers.
Apple isn’t the only company cleared to test self-driving cars in California. Companies ranging from the usual suspects like Ford, Honda, BMW, Nissan, and Mercedes-Benz to newcomers like Tesla, Google, Faraday Future and Nvidia have also received their autonomous-driver permits, making the race to driverless driving a rapidly growing one.
Sоurсе: techradar.com