Russia will seek to present to the world football championship 2018 your self-driving car. On that Sunday said Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. If these plans get implemented, the car will be released sooner than the hypothetical Apple Car, the presentation of which is expected in 2019.
“We will do our best to use such machine, produced in Russia, at the world Cup in 2018”,— the “RIA Novosti” words of Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Arkady Dvorkovich. In his speech, Dvorkovich said that this technology initiative is tailored to a new market, which will prevail in the middle of this century, and promised to support government in the implementation of such ideas.
“It’s not easy, but I think we will succeed in such projects,” — said Dvorkovich.
The report notes that at the opening ceremony in Kyoto, Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe said that Japan plans to create driverless cars for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. Thus, Russia wants to overtake Japan in two years.
Over brand car, according to the rumors, and Apple works. This is evidenced by the active recruitment of specialists from the automotive industry, as well as hints from the company itself. Team of employees working on Project Titan, now employs 600 people. According to reports, Apple’s management decided to significantly accelerate the pace of development to release the car as early as 2019, not 2020.
Despite the fact that Apple already has a lot of professionals, not one year working on unmanned cars, the first electric vehicle of Cupertino still won’t be fully Autonomous.
