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« on: April 24, 2017, 04:05:21 pm »

Apple's car project, Titan, ready to train testers

Last year Apple pivoted its Project Titan from a full-on car project to a platform designed to enable autonomous vehicles, whether they're eventually made by Apple or a partner manufacturer or ride-sharing service. It looks like that platform is now ready for early testing.

Kif Leswing, writing for Business Insider:


  The documents obtained by Business Insider include a "Development Platform Specific Training" as well as details about an autonomous-vehicle system called  the "Apple Automated System." Among the key training issues are instructions on how to regain manual control of an autonomous car if necessary.
 
  According to the training packet, Apple's self-driving car uses a Logitech wheel and pedals to actuate drive by wire, and it supports one person at a time.


The drivers, mostly Ph.D's involved with the machine learning program, have to pass seven tests to be considered trained to, among other things, take back control of the system should they ever need to.

Titan may ...

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