Apple driverless car is real

Apple is well under way to realising its dream of building and selling driverless cars, it has been revealed by the Guardian newspaper in the UK.

The correspondence, intercepted by the British newspaper, is said to prove that Apple’s Project Titan is far further along in development than any conventional car-maker had feared, after the Guardian revealed the Silicon Valley-based tech giant is scouting for secure locations in the San Francisco Bay area to test it.

The letters printed by the newspaper are between Project Titan Apple engineer Frank Fearon and officials from a nearby car testing facility GoMentum Station.

"We would ... like to get an understanding of timing and availability for the space, and how we would need to coordinate around other parties who would be using [it]," said Fearon in May in a letter to the secure test facility.

The GoMentum Station is an ideal test base for Apple since it's located just 30 minutes' drive north east from San Francisco and is protected by armed guards.

Until now, much of what Apple has been up to has been based on rumours and heresay and the fact that it had been reported that the secret car program was being headed up by Apple's vice-president for product design Steve Zadesky – a former Ford engineer -- and Johann Jungwirth, the former head of the research and development department at Mercedes-Benz North America, plus Marc Newson, an industrial designer involved with the 1999 Ford 021C concept car.

Apple itself has never officially confirmed the existence of any plans to build a car, but now the letters from Fearon prove there is, indeed,substance to those rumours.

It’s not known if Apple plans to team up with another car-maker (there were rumours BMW would dontae the i3 architecture) or go ahead, like Tesla, and develop its vehicle from scratch.

Earlier this year Apple's vice-president, Jeff Williams, described the car as the "ultimate mobile device”.