Apple's Self-Driving Car Setup Captured on Video, and It's Gigantic
Apple’s autonomous car project is coming to life. “Project Titan,” the reported codename for the company’s venture into driverless vehicles, has gone through a number of supposed forms, from a full-fledged car to a piece of software designed to drive a car.
The co-founder of autonomous taxi company Voyage, MacAllister Higgins, shared Wednesday what he claimed to be Apple’s “Project Titan”: a giant array of cameras and sensors popped on top of a car.
“I call it “The Thing”,” Higgins said in his Twitter post.
Apple has thrown a lot of technology into this roof-mounted unit, which used a Lexus sports utility vehicle as its test bed. There’s 12 Lidar sensors, six on the front and six on the back, which are used by autonomous cars to judge how far away objects are by firing lasers and timing how long it takes to come back. Beyond that, the roof contains radar technology and what MacAllister said is “likely” the majority of the computing hardware.
Look at the vehicle in action here:
