Apple's Project Titan: Why driverless cars make immense sense - Livemint
Whatever your current perception about them, driverless cars fascinate everyone and will be navigating our roads in the future, which explains the strong buzz around Project Titan—Apple Inc. ’s rumoured self-driving electric car project that has been in the news on and off for almost a year. On 14 August, The Guardian reported that Apple “is building a self-driving car in Silicon Valley, and is scouting for secure locations in the San Francisco Bay area to test it”. The paper said it has documents, obtained under a public records act... ’s self-driving car that is part of its Google X project, and now a part of Alphabet Inc. Google started testing its self-driving technology with the Toyota Prius on freeways in California way back in 2009. But the technology is much older, as Google itself points out on its website. In the mid 2000s, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) organized the Grand Challenges where teams gathered to compete with self-driving vehicles. Google’s self-driving car processes both map and sensor. Source: www.livemint.com
