Adam Kos We have a few rumored Apple products here that we have sketchy news about, but that's about it. Of course, the most anticipated is the headset for AR/VR reality, but before the rumors about it began to grow, the imaginary first place of this ranking was the Apple Car. However, Samsung is also stepping into this segment, and currently more so than Apple.
It was first thought that Apple would actually create its own car. From there, the progress went down and the information focused more on the capabilities of such a car that Apple would produce in collaboration with a large car company. Lately, however, there has been a bit of silence in this regard, even though we saw a really eye-catching demonstration of the next-generation CarPlay at WWDC22 last year.
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Here, Samsung does not invent any complexities, as it relies more on Google's solution, i.e. Android Auto, in its phones. But this does not mean that he would not be involved in the automotive industry in any way. It has now even undertaken important tests where its Level 4 autonomous car system was able to pass a test in traffic at a distance of 200 km.
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6 levels of autonomous driving
We have a total of 6 levels of autonomous driving. Level 0 does not offer any automation, Level 1 has driver support, Level 2 already offers partial automation, which most often includes, for example, Tesla cars. Level 3 offers conditional automation, with Mercedes-Benz announcing its first car at this level earlier this year.
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Level 4 is already high automation, where a person can drive the car, but it is not necessary. At the same time, this level is calculated for carpooling services, especially in cities with a speed of up to 50 km/h. The last Level 5 is logically complete automation, when these cars will not even be equipped with a steering wheel or pedals, so they will not even allow human intervention.
Car Play of the next generation
A recent report mentions that Samsung has installed its self-driving algorithm along with an array of LiDAR scanners on a regular, commercially available car, but the make and model were not specified. This system then passed a test over a length of 200 km. So it should be a level 4, as the test was conducted without a driver - all on home soil in South Korea, of course.
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Pavel Jelic Where is the Apple Car?
It's been really quiet lately about any system with respect to Apple's self-driving cars. But the question is whether it is necessarily wrong. So here we have a certain test of Samsung, but it has a different strategy than Apple. The South Korean brand likes to test new technologies and also brags about it, whereas Apple tests them in silence and then, when the product is ready, it really presents it to the world.
Samsung is ahead of Apple, for example, in the jigsaw puzzle segment
So it is quite possible that there is already a wheelchair controlled by Apple's smart algorithms driving in Cupertino, but the company is not mentioning it yet, because it is fine-tuning all the details. After all, it could take years before Samsung's solution gets into any real mass production. But it is important for the company that it has completed its first successful and public test, because it can be said that it is the first in something.
