Apple confirms it’s working on self-driving cars

Apple CEO Tim Cook today spoke for the first time about the company’s self-driving car ambitions. Cook revealed: We’re focusing on autonomous systems. It’s probably one of the most difficult AI projects to work on. Autonomy is something that’s incredibly exciting for us and we’ll see where it takes us. It’s not the Apple Car, but it’ll have to do. Apple’s autonomous driving program, Project Titan, might have been Silicon Valley’s worst-kept secret. After kicking off the program in 2014, Apple hired over 1,000 engineers in an attempt to compete with the likes of Tesla and Google. By 2016, most of them…

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