Earlier this year, the big buzz around Apple in the car space was a push by investors to convince Apple CEO Tim Cook to buy Tesla Motors. That came to naught, but the reason that Cook seemed so disinterested in the notion may be that Project Titan was already well underway.

Today's revelation comes from The Guardian, which claims to have obtained documents from a public records request showing that Project Titan, as the secret initiative is called, is active and further along than previously thought. It also adds some substance to the vagueness of the Titan project. Apple has been dancing around in the periphery of the auto world for some time. The Guardian reports that Apple has been recruiting vehicle engineers from places like battery manufacturers and even Tesla Motors.

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The documents specifically reveal that Apple engineers have communicated with a Bay Area testing ground for autonomous vehicles, called GoMentum Station, housed in an old naval base. It seems clear that there's little reason for Apple to be seeking to use a facility like this in the near future unless they had a prototype to test out.

Much remains unclear, but GoMentum Station did confirm to The Guardian that Apple had been in talks about using the facility.

Will the Apple Car be anything like their cross-town rival Google's, or Uber's autonomous car? Too early to tell, but we'll be watching this story closely.

via The Guardian

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