Randy Iwasaki, GoMentum owner Contra Costa Transportation Authority’s executive director told the Guardian, “We had to sign a non-disclosure agreement with Apple”.
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The team has been busy working on the ominous sounding Project Titan, which is Apple’s codename for its experiments into building a self-driving vehicle.
The long-rumored Apple vehicle might be hitting the road sooner than even the most optimistic of us had expected. Using the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, the newspaper found that Apple engineers met with officials at GoMentum Station in California during May. The agency is promoting a portion of the site as an ideal testing facility for carmakers and tech companies working on automotive technology.
It has been reported by our sources that Apple Self Driving Cars are being tested somewhere in Silicon Valley. The facility is a 2,100 acre former Naval Base near San Francisco, and has features like faux gas stations and freeway overpasses. Officials are claiming that the station is the biggest secure testing facility worldwide for tests on connected vehicle and driverless auto technologies.
Above: Modified versions of Acura’s flagship sedan, the RLX, are being used for automated drive testing and development at the GoMentum Station in Concord.
The Guardian dug up documents revealing that Apple is looking for a facility to test its car-preferably one with high levels of security.
Apple’s Project Titan, an autonomous electric-car project, surfaced this year following reports of a spotted mysterious van sporting an elaborate camera on the roof.
The latest clue comes from comments made by Apple engineer Frank Fearon to The Guardian.
“You can’t tell anyone anything about your job”, this intern said said. It’s closed to the public and guarded by the military, making it flawless for the notoriously secretive Apple to conduct testing of a robot vehicle.
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Other companies testing for self-driving cars also include Google, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla and Volkswagen.
