Bidness Etc - Apple Gets a New Patent, And a Self-Driving Rumored iCar Sighted

A mysterious self-controlled car has been sighted in Concord Bay Area. It is rumored to be another one of Apple’s experiments for their product expansion.
Apple is keen on ensuring quality in terms of mapping service, hence it was no surprise spotting the minivan having at least 12 cameras fixed on its top, it came across at the one used in Street View car. Besides this, two disc-shaped small antennas were also fitted, along with LiDAR sensors that look like spinning cylindrical devices, seems to be hanging over the rear end and front, also to measure rotations of the wheel as far as guesses are being made.
A number of minivans have been sighted in California, having LiDAR sensor fixed on its roof and rear. LiDAR is basically a laser-based technology which is used to create high-resolution maps, and is of significance for the sensing systems that is placed in self-driving vehicles. LiDAR has also been used by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), in their self-driving cars.
It is also being said that almost identical minivan in white, was witnessed in Brooklyn last September, with a license plate of California. Moreover, the California Department of Motor Vehicles has confirmed that a Dodge Caravan spotted along with the van carrying equipment is leased by Apple.
It is nothing new about Apple wanting to try its hands on the electric car. The tech giant has been rumored long to be interested in smart cars. A patent was granted on Tuesday for "Apple Electric Car, Inc.," which doesn’t come much as a surprise but surely did raise eyebrows.
The patent, which was discovered by a blog Patently Apple, was basically to support an adjustable pedestal for the computerized display view in a golf cart, which is highly unlikely for Tim Cook to be interested in anything of that sort. According to the filing, the patent allows the golf cart’s display to be seen by the diver despite whether the driver or user is inside the golf car or outside of it.
The news about Elon Musk being spotted at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters was enough to make the tech world go insane with the news. However, the speculations weren’t completely shattered when Mr. Musk reported that the visit was about an acquisition.
The Wall Street analysts have quite for long been claiming that the company might be interested in making an investment in order to purchase an electric car company. But nothing of material has occurred so far, except a development ELEKS creating an Apple iWatch app to allow control of Tesla using their wrists.