Have you seen this sleek Apple Car video that is currently going viral? Tik Tok, Twitter and YouTube? The car has weird spherical wheels and can be parked, if you can believe its wide eyes.
The video has garnered over 5 million views Twitter only, but it is totally false, just in case.
With recent reports, Apple’s autonomous car project still under construction, it makes sense for viral video creators to try to take advantage of the latest rumors from Cupertino. But this recently viral video is not what it seems. In fact, this fake has its roots in a CGI design that is almost a decade old.
Like the website The unit points out that the car of the viral video seems to be based on a concept car designed in 2013, the Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo. Apparently, someone took this concept car and replaced the Mercedes logo with an Apple one.
The Drive also points out that trackball wheels like the one in this fake video are physically impossible, which is accurate here in the early 21st century. The problem, of course, is that there is no practical way to float completely spherical wheels unless you use something like magnetic levitation, a completely unlikely solution that Goodyear Tires proposed. in 2016. Still, it’s still fantasy.
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If you’re excited to drive an Apple Car, we have even more discouragement for you, which was recently broken. There were a lot of people who seem to believe that Apple’s Car could hit the roads in 2021, but according to MacRumors, the car will not be aimed at the consumer in the coming years, will appear sometime in 2025. And even that seems optimistic, given the number of obstacles that still exist for fully autonomous driving on existing roads in the United States .
Yes, a lot of people predicted that we would have autonomous cars for now. But these kinds of advances are easier to make in the lab than on the road. Just ask the U.S. military, which in 1985 tried to build an autonomous vehicle that would have communicated with something like the Terminator. Skynet.
Grab your horses, Apple fans. The future of the robot is near and we are confident that automated lifting to make humanity obsolete will occur in due course. Just be patient.