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Recently, apple obtained new patents from the U.S. patent and Trademark Office, including the invention patent of project Titan: navigation system (ANS). The automatic driving navigation system can preset the destination through the apple car system Carplay, and the car can automatically take the user to the destination after one key start. Apple's Titan project has always been a mystery for the self driving industry. As early as 2014, apple started to build cars in the heavy asset mode, launched the "Titan plan", planned to reproduce the success of iPhone and build a product that subverted the automobile industry from scratch, and frequently poached technical engineers in the field of electric vehicles. However, due to the lack of relevant experience in vehicle manufacturing, the plan ran aground for a while and was reopened in 2016, and the development route was changed from vehicle manufacturing to automatic driving technology research. Due to the confidentiality of the project and the news that Titan plans to cut 190 jobs at the beginning of this year, some people think that Apple's car building plan has run aground. "Autopilot and autopilot will not be realized." At the JD Power car revolution conference in Las Vegas in October, apple co-founder Waltz said he believed that Apple could make real cars and sell them. But a few years ago, he gave up the idea. "There are many technologies that can help us drive cars and make us safer. But it really needs at least the dumbest people to steer the wheel. " Said watts. Although watts's speech revealed that Apple's car building plan may be another route adjustment - from driverless technology research to driver assistance technology research. But from the perspective of patent granting and industry cooperation, Apple's auto ambitions go beyond that. In June this year, Apple's acquisition of Baidu's chief scientist Wu Enda's autopilot company Drive.ai, the company's main strength point is the autopilot aftermarket, through the provision of laser radar and other hardware packages, the vehicle is converted to automatic driving vehicle. In October, Taiwan's E-times reported that quanta, a Taiwanese company, has been providing apple with autonomous driving solutions. Apple has also acquired many patents related to autopilot this year, such as the new generation of vehicle lighting system, integrated chassis control system, road friction coefficient estimation system that can capture high-precision 4D information, and radar system including dual receiver array. Guo Mingqiu, an analyst of Apple's supply chain, said in an interview with cheyun that Apple wants to go back to the successful path of iPhone, that is, to do a good job in "software", then conquer "hardware", and finally form "service", which may officially launch Apple car in 2023-2025.