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Sina Technology News on the afternoon of January 26, Beijing time, according to foreign media reports, apple wants to apply for a patent for a new technology that allows you to use voice commands to tell your car where you want to go, and then the car will do the rest for you, such as navigation, driving and parking. The final result will be a Siri like system to control your autopilot. The patent application was called "destination signal guidance for autopilot". It was first introduced in August 2nd last year and was released on 23 August 2nd. The technology described in the patent aims to guide an autonomous vehicle to its destination by using voice commands, gestures or touch screens. The voice command technology is particularly impressive. You can tell your car where you want to go, and then it can take you there. Voice commands don't need to be very specific - for example, if you tell your car you want to eat Indian food, it will find the nearest Indian restaurant, then send you there, and automatically park your car for you. The proposed patented technology can even find the best place to park based on the product you want to buy. "For example, if you say" I want to buy some ornamental plants for my garden "near a large retail store, the navigation manager (as described in the technology) will make a decision to park the vehicle near the entrance of the store marked" gardening "or" gardening supplies " The patent also describes another situation, when you say, "I want some coffee", and then the "navigation manager" will select a coffee shop that best suits your current situation based on a comprehensive consideration of the location, price, and the patronage history of your coffee shop In addition to voice control, the technology can also use sensor devices to read gestures, gaze or touch based personal signals. An example of gesture based technology is that you can use your mobile phone to point to a specific parking space, and then your car will automatically Park in the corresponding parking space according to your direction. Some face recognition technologies are also involved in this patent, in which a driver facing camera is installed on the windshield to detect the driver's face and facial features, and then by reading the driver's face information, the side rearview mirror can retract or extend accordingly. Whether Apple will implement the self driving technology on its own designed car or just sell the patent to other car companies is not clearly stated in the patent document. These tools may be integrated into Apple's Carplay, which already integrates Siri and is built into many different vehicles, but they need advanced autonomous capabilities to work. This is not Apple's first patent for autonomous driving. Last November, apple won a patent aimed at eliminating the blind spots of cars in manual and automatic driving modes. Previously, there were rumors that Apple intended to intervene in the field of automobile manufacturing. With these and more car patents in the future, Apple really seems to be able to gradually enter the car market.