Have you seen that 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 believe your lying eyes.
The video has been viewed more than 5 million times Twitter only, but it’s totally fake, in case you’re in doubt.
With recent reports that it is Apple’s autonomous car project still in the making, it makes sense that viral creators would try to take advantage of the latest Cupertino rumors. But this new viral video is not what it looks like. In fact, this fake 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 that concept car and replaced the Mercedes logo with an Apple log.
The Drive also notes that trackball wheels like the one in this fake video are physically impossible, something that’s right here in the early 21st century. The problem, of course, is that there’s no practical way to make fully spherical wheels float unless you’ve used something like magnetic levitation, a completely unlikely solution suggested by Goodyear Tires. back in 2016. However, it is all still fantasy.
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If you’re excited to drive an Apple Car, we’ve got even more daunting for you that broke down recently. There were a lot of people who seem to believe Apple’s car could hit the road in 2021, but according to MacRumors, the car will not find its way to consumers in the coming years, but will appear sometime in 2025. And even that seems optimistic, given the number of obstacles that still exist for fully autonomous driving on existing U.S. roads.
Yes, many people predicted that we would have self-driving cars by this time. But these kinds of advancements are easier to make in the lab than on the open road. Just ask the US military, which in 1985 tried to build an autonomous vehicle that would have communicated with something like that of the Terminator. Skynet.
Hold your horses, Apple fans. The future of the robot is near and we are sure that the automated uprising to make humanity obsolete will take place in due time. You just have to be patient.