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waynerad@diasp.org

"Apple's long-rumored driverless car project, also known as Project Titan, has been shuttered. But the company didn't announce its cancellation. In fact, Apple barely ever mentioned the secretive project despite laboring on it for nearly a decade."

"Project Titan was obvious from the outside -- from automotive industry hiring to heavily documented, public testing of self-driving cars, there was no way it could stay a secret. But the company still tried to preserve the mystery."

"Bloomberg's Mark Gurman broke the news that Apple will not be making a car, dashing the hopes of any Apple fan who dreamed of cruising around in a Jony Ive-designed roadster. But Apple's car considerations go back a bit farther than 2014, the year early reports pegged the company's first real moves to spin up Project Titan."

Crash of the Titan: a short history of Apple's doomed car project

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danie10@squeet.me

An Android phone, running Linux and modified openpilot software, can do basic self-driving of a car

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The car is a research vehicle of a local university, where they fitted custom motors for controlling steering. The Redmi Note 9 Pro phone is communicating via a wireless CAN bus interface to the Suzuki Alto car.

This is really more a proof of concept than a serious commercial solution, but the code is open source (link in the article), so one can see how it works… and it does actually drive the car.

See https://mankaran32.medium.com/hacking-my-android-phone-to-drive-my-car-9ea98c30e91b
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