Jaromir Miko Although it might seem that Apple has slowed down in the development of its autonomous vehicles recently, the reality seems to be different, and according to the data so far, the company has a fleet of 55 test cars. It is not known how much money Apple so far pumped up to its Titan project, according to the server The Information would se but by could be around $1 billion, with the entire industry investing about $16 billion in autonomous vehicles so far.
Apple's project is not talked about that much mainly because same already Titan it has restructured several times and also reduced the number of people involved in it. Instead of 1 people on it today works about 600, at one time it also seemed that instead of the Apple car, he was only working on a software solution for other companies along the lines of CarPlay.
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However, Apple is not the only company focusing on the development of autonomous vehicles. According to The Information server, it is only one of thirty that have invested a lot of money in the development of "self-driving cars" in recent years, and it is clear that further billions will go into development before the technology is usable and the cars are ready for the premiere.
But already at the end of 2018, Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki from the Canadian University of Waterloo, in collaboration with German scientists, discovered that intelligent vehicles that can identify pitfalls on the road and, due to the absence of emotions, can keep a cool head, they have one major problem to blame car companies.
Most of them not only present, but also test their vehicles in sunny ones areas of the USA such as California, Arizona, Texas or Florida. The technology is thus ready to work in ideal conditions, when it is sunny or at least the roads and sensors are clear. But it means that the technology is not tunedé for use in rain or snow, and as Professor Czarnecki has just discovered, cars have a problem with identifying objects or traffic in such conditionsích marking.
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Yes, there are also companies like Waymo or Argo + Ford that are already testing or starting to test cars in such situations as well. But it's still not enough, and Waymo, for example, admits that its sensors shouldy work in light rain, but the technology still hasn't been fully adapted for snow or heavy rain and storms. "It's a really noticeable blind spot. The deployment of autonomous vehicles in bad conditions is not much addressed or talked about much,” the executive brought the matter to the foreý director of Scale AI Alexander Wang.
Do when automakers will avoid testing autonomous vehicles in deteriorated conditions remains a question. Today, their functionality is seen as a competitive advantage, and thus if Apple wants to break into the market in the coming years self-driving cars, they have to break the ice. And almost literally.
