Apple iCar Ready: Self-Driving Car Tests Soon, The Guardian Scoops

Rumors are coming from various overseas sources about Apple’s future.
This time, however, the rumors do not concern new features for iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch, but rather a much larger and more complex project.
In some ways still futuristic, yet embraced by various companies, the dream of a car that moves without a driver on board also seems to be in Apple’s sights.
According to the latest rumors published by The Guardian, Apple has requested permission from the relevant authorities to use a safe and protected area to test its “self-driving” prototypes.
The designated area should be the San Francisco Bay area and, more specifically, the area near the GoMentum Station, a former naval base located precisely in this location.
The site is perfect for testing various types of vehicles, as it is an area that was designed decades ago to accommodate many roads, highway lanes, and large areas, useful during World War II. Subsequently, everything was abandoned, but for several years, given the potential, the characteristics, and the excellent asphalt of the road surface, it has become the perfect place for testing means of transport.
The Guardian states that by May, there had already been an exchange of emails between the staff responsible for the Apple iCar project and the management of GoMentum Station, in order to find availability and timing useful for both parties to carry out tests during free moments.
The emails reportedly came into the possession of The Guardian’s editorial staff and would attest not only to the existence of the project itself but also to its significance – something already known, documented by Google’s numerous hires of engineers from the automotive world.

The most significant implication is something else: the apparent evidence, according to these rumors, that the self-driving car project is at a rather advanced stage of development, so much so that it is already looking for the right area to conduct road tests.
This means that the prototype, if not already entirely completed, is at least nearly finished.
An undoubtedly fascinating scenario, probably not intended for the mass market but certainly futuristic and which gives great hope to the proponents of a future of intelligent cars.