Let the Apple Automobile rumors roll on. Apple has been granted a patent (quantity US 11858459 B1) for “Approved Distant Management” for a automobile.
I’m 99.9% certain that the primary model of an Apple-made automobile (assuming it ever arrives gained’t be self-driving). I’m additionally certain that an autonomous automobile is the tech large’s eventual purpose.
Concerning the patent
The patent relates typically to navigation of a automobile, and specifically to remotely-controlled driving management of the automobile by way of a distant management system communicatively coupled to a navigation system of the automobile by way of a communication community.
Within the patent Apple notes that the rise of curiosity in autonomous navigation of automobiles, together with vehicles, has resulted in a need to develop autonomous navigation programs which might autonomously navigate (i.e., autonomously “drive”) a automobile by way of varied routes, together with a number of roads in a street community, reminiscent of up to date roads, streets, highways, and so on.
Such autonomous navigation programs can management a number of automotive management parts of the automobile to implement such autonomous navigation. Such management by the autonomous navigation system in a automobile may be known as autonomous driving management of the automobile.
Apple notes that automobiles that embody autonomous navigation programs might allow a number of occupants to manually management a number of automobile management parts of the automobile, such that a number of occupants of the automobile can manually navigate (“drive”) the automobile. Such management by an occupant may be known as handbook driving management of the automobile. Apple desires to make this attainable with an Apple Automobile, even one which’s self-driving.
Abstract of the patent
Right here’s Apple’s summary of the patent: “Some embodiments present a automobile navigation system which might navigate a automobile by way of an setting primarily based on driving instructions obtained from a distant management system primarily based on handbook operator interplay with an interface of the distant management system. Distant driving management may be engaged primarily based on willpower, by way of processing automobile sensor information, of a well being emergency related to a number of occupants of the automobile, and the distant management system can generate distant driving instructions which trigger the automobile to be navigated to a selected location with out requiring the occupant related to the well being emergency to manually navigate the automobile.
“The distant management system can monitor the occupant by way of communicated automobile sensor information and may management distant management units included within the automobile to supply exterior indication that the automobile is being navigated based on distant driving management.”
