Recently, foreign media revealed that Apple’s “Project Titan” has approved a new patent application. This patent hands over the control of the car’s suspension to the driver, or the system automatically adjusts the suspension. Suspension to avoid motion sickness.
Apple's active suspension is relatively unique. It can leave the adjustment of the suspension to the driver to control or the system automatically detects road conditions and responds. Specifically, Apple's active suspension system contains a variable-pressure air spring. If the vehicle vibrates at a specific frequency on a certain road section, the system can compensate for the vibration frequency and reduce vehicle bumps, thereby reducing the safety of the driver and passengers. Motion sickness. In addition, this kind of suspension can also perform multiple non-driving functions, such as shaking the vehicle cabin at low frequencies, so that passengers (especially children) can fall asleep as quickly as possible. This design is very unique to Apple and completely different from the traditional thinking of car manufacturers.
Apple’s car-building is not something that happens in a day or two. There were reports a few years ago that Apple was going to build a car. Xiaopeng Motors employee Zhang Xiaolong once worked in the automotive field at Apple, but he was later accused of stealing According to the details released by the court, we learned that Apple has more than 2,700 employees specifically responsible for the automotive field. In addition, some employees will also participate in automotive projects. It's normal for such a large-scale automotive team to come up with some new patents, but when will the Apple car come out?
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