Did you see the sleek Apple Car video that is currently going viral TikTok, Twitter and YouTube? The car has bizarre spherical wheels and can park itself if you can believe your lying eyes.
The video has been viewed more than 5 million times Twitter only, but this is completely false, if in doubt.
According to recent reports, Apple’s autonomous car project still at work, it makes sense that viral video creators are trying to capitalize on the latest rumors from Cupertino. But this new viral video does not look like it does. In fact, this forgery has its roots in a CGI design that is almost a decade old.
Like the website The ride points out that the car in the viral video appears to be based on a concept car designed in 2013, the Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo. Someone apparently took the draft car and replaced the Mercedes logo with an Apple logbook.
The Drive also notes that trackball wheels like those in this fake video are physically impossible, something that is accurate here in the early 21st century. The problem, of course, is that there is no practical way to drive completely spherical wheels unless you have used something like magnetic levitation, a completely unlikely solution suggested by Goodyear Tires back in 2016. However, it is still a fantasy.
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If you’ve excited to drive an Apple Car, we’ve even more discouraged for you who recently broke down. There were many people who apparently believed that Apple’s car could hit the road by 2021, but according to MacRumors, the car will not go to the consumer within the next few years, but will appear somewhere by 2025. And even that seems optimistic, given the number of obstacles that still exist for fully autonomous management on existing U.S. roads.
Yes, many people predicted that we would have autonomous cars now al. But this kind of progress is easier to make in the lab than on the open road. Just ask the U.S. military, which in 1985 tried to build an autonomous vehicle that would communicate with something like the Terminator’s. Skynet.
Hold your horses, Apple fans. The robot future is near and we are sure that the automatic uprising to make humanity obsolete will happen in time. You just have to be patient.