Apple Uses Logitech Hardware in Autonomous Car Testing

[GTPNewsWire]

This is the discussion thread for a recent post on GTPlanet:

Apple Uses Logitech Hardware in Autonomous Car Testing
The tech giant turns to a familiar piece of sim racing hardware for its autonomous car project.

This article was published by Brendan Rorrison (@Brend) on April 24th, 2017 in the Automotive News category.

 

[Sturdy]

I suppose as it's going in a real vehicle they wanted something reliable hence avoiding the Thrustmaster options?

I can't help but assume that Apple autonomous vehicles will only work on Apple sponsored roads and will only recognise other Apple autonomous cars, leading to a lot of collisions that would be blamed on the Google cars for being incompatible with Apple iDrive?

iDrive would also be quite an ironic name for a car you don't actually drive. Although I suppose BMW has taken the iDrive name already...

 

[05XR8]

Maybe they'll go with idontDrive.

 

[artem9000]

This is what I call Real Driving Simulator.

 

[The_American]

Hope they got the FFB settings right

 

[Saidur_Ali]

I suppose as it's going in a real vehicle they wanted something reliable hence avoiding the Thrustmaster options?

Spiking pedals and broken optical encoder, wonder if they have fail-safe for that...

 

[DGuzmanG]

It suits both companies as they like to force uncompatibilities and leave their customers behind in order to sell the same product all over again.

 

[bokimoto]

A Fanatec CSW was installed in passenger side of a Pikes Peak Hill Climb race entry, with a similar function.
Car was piloted by a paraplegic man, with electronic interfaces for steering, throttle & brake,
and the back-up driver sat beside him with the Fanatec, just in case of a problem.

I've got some photos of it somewhere.

 

[Robin]

There's a thread about the Apple Car and their foray into autonomous technology.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/the-apple-car-thread.323884/

Member doesn't search - gets shouted at, GTPNewsWire doesn't search...

 

[Craze63AMG]

There's a thread about the Apple Car and their foray into autonomous technology.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/the-apple-car-thread.323884/

Member doesn't search - gets shouted at, GTPNewsWire doesn't search...

That thread hasn't been updated since October...

Plus, this is more about the fact they're using Logitech wheels to test an autonomous driving system, not news about them building a car.

It's entirely possible they'll never build a car but instead partner and implement this system (what I firmly believe).