Apple confirms: working with self-driving cars – ITavisen.en

Ask about the similar rules as car manufacturers.

Apple’s bilplaner has gone from full staffing to create a car to create software for “automated systems,” writes Reuters.

sent a letter
Now they have sent a letter to the u.s. government where they ask for similar rules as a traditional car manufacturers in a quest to create the best self-driving cars.

In the letter from the 22. November to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration asks Apple to the authorities not to inflict them too many restrictions in the testing of self-driving cars, and that the “established manufacturers and new entrants should be treated equally.”

Works with the machine learning
Furthermore, writes Steve Kenner, Apple’s director of produktintegritet, that Apple is working with machine learning and have plans for the car market:

the Company is investing heavily in studying machine learning and automation, and is enthusiastic for the potential for automated systems in many areas, including transport.

Have collected experiences
Apple has previously had major ambitions to create his own car, and had at one time employed thousands of bilingeniører from, for example, Tesla, and had a prototype that ran in secret on bilbaner, but the project was put on ice in October, while the company hinted that they instead would bet on licensing.

Apple has even been in talks with McLaren about a possible collaboration, without the conversations led to anything concrete.

Can be used to much
Now sits the company of lots of research, experience and new technologies such as machine learning, which they used to build a car:

– There are many potential applications for these technologies, including future transportation, so we want to jobe with the NHTSA to help define the best rules for the industry, ” says Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr in a statement to Reuters.

Sources
Reuters
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