Project Titan: Apple Acquiring 2100 Acre Military Base To Perform Advanced

Apple annouced a new OS X, El Capitan, and iOS 9 during the keynote at the annual developers conference that runs through June 12.

Up until this point, there was a lot of talk about tech giant Apple and its purported ambitions to create a vehicle, but now The Guardian claims it can confirm it.

Britain’s Guardian newspaper has revealed documents showing Apple has been looking for a test location in southern California.

One area pinpointed is a former naval base near San Francisco which the company’s Special Project group apparently see as highly suitable as a testing ground.

As Quartz reports, the Guardian found that Apple’s “Task Titan” self-driving auto is much further into improvement than was beforehand suspected.

Cook also reportedly met with Fiat-Chrysler Boss Sergio Marchionne, and may have toured the assembly line for BMW’s i3 electric vehicle in Germany past year.

When the Guardian contacted the venue through its owner, the Contra Costa Transportation Authority, it learned that the agency had signed a non-disclosure agreement with Apple. “We can’t tell you anything other than they’ve come in and they’re interested“, Iwasaki said, according to Apple Insider.

Apple has been very secretive of the project, so it comes as to no surprise that they are guarding their information and documents very well.

This level of security is bound to appeal to Apple, which has hundreds of engineers secretly working on automotive technologies in an anonymous office building in Sunnyvale, four miles from its main campus in Cupertino.

Rader pointed out innovations such as self-parking and front-crash prevention systems.

Industry watchers, citing the documents, seem to think Apple has reached a testing phase, which means that some sort of vehicle prototype is ready to go.