The Apple Car Might Be Able To Eliminate Blind Spots

Apple is showing its ambition to expand to the automotive industry by filing a new patent for a car that can eliminate blind spots. What Apple’s system does is to project the blind spot’s surrounding environment to the windshield or windows.

The car will also come equipped with the facial recognition technology that works via a camera on the windshield that faces the driver.

This new patent shares the same underlying idea with Alaina Gassler’s. What the 14-year-old came up with is to mount cameras outside of the vehicle to record and then project these footages to the driver.

While sharing the same idea of displaying the blind spots, Apple’s patent was filed way back in 2016 while that of Gassler was made public recently.

Apple’s design can be used for both autonomous vehicles and those with human drivers. The real question here is will Apple join hand with an automaker to integrate this design to future cars or it will do the work itself and introduce an Apple car?

Rumor has it that Apple is taking the idea of building its own car seriously. Back in April, Reuters reported that the iPhone maker was discussing with some other companies to develop sensor technology for autonomous vehicles.

The plan of Apple to make autonomous vehicles is called Project Titan and the company has reportedly recruited former employees of Google and Tesla to work on the technology. Reuters reported that there were more than 1.200 employees are developing the project. Last year, the company logged approximately 130,000 km of testing in California.

In 2018, Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst said that Apple Car would make it to the market in 2023 or 2025. The patent could shed some light on how Apple wants the car to be.