Apple registers domain name apple.car, among other things

Apple has registered the domain names Apple.car and Apple.auto, among others. The US company’s move may have to do with Apple Carplay, the software that connects iPhones to compatible cars, but it may be related to Apple’s possible own car.

The domain name registrations were discovered Friday by MacRumors. The domains were registered in December and now appear in whois data. Currently there are no actual websites associated with the domains. While it is certain that Apple produces software that connects iPhones to cars equipped with the same software, the registrations may point to Apple’s self-driving electric car that regularly appears in rumors. Reports from September 2015 stated that Apple plans to launch its first electric car in 2019. Those reports were based on sources from The Wall Street Journal, which has close contacts with Apple.

In the past, reports have also surfaced that Apple is using an old, converted and heavily guarded naval base to test its cars and that the company has been in talks with the state of California to arrange permission to use its self-driving cars on public roads. To test. Also, Apple is said to be aggressively looking for engineers to work on the car project that would be internally dubbed “Project Titan.” The registration of the domain names contributes somewhat to the credibility of the reports about self-driving, electric cars from Apple. The company itself has not made any official announcement about its own car. For example, competitor Google has already established that it is working on a self-driving car.