If you’re still dreaming of owning a shiny, white Apple Car one day, we’ve got some bad news for you: Apple just dismissed 200 employees from its autonomous vehicle group, internally dubbed Project Titan, CNBC reported Thursday.
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Forget the Tesla Model 3, an Apple Car might drive you around in 2023
Just when you thought Apple’s top secret car project was dead, the rumor mill has once again started back up.
This time, TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (aka the guy who’s often eerily spot-on with his predictions about unrelea…
Apple reveals self-driving car work in research paper
Apple’s work on self-driving cars has been more secretive than just about every other project in the autonomous car space — but now, two of the company’s scientists have published some of their auto-focused research for the first time.
The paper, authored by Apple engineers Yin Zhou and Oncel Tuzel and published in the independent journal arXiv, details a new computer imaging software technique called “VoxelNet” that could improve driverless car system’s ability to detect pedestrians and cyclists.
The scientists claim their new method could be even more effective than the two-tiered LiDAR and camera systems that have become the industry standard for object detection in self-driving cars. Those expensive systems depend on cameras to help determine the small or faraway objects (like pedestrians or cyclists) detected by LiDAR sensors, which use light beams to detect and map 3D obstacles in the world around the the vehicle. Read more…
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