Apple is working on its car in Canada

Apple has an office based in a suburb of Ottawa, Canada, that is dedicated to building software for its unofficial car project, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and Gerrit De Vynck report.

The office is partially staffed with two dozen engineers poached from BlackBerry, according to the report. Earlier this year, Apple hired Dan Dodge, who used to be CEO of QNX, BlackBerry's automotive software division.

They are working on the "software core" of what could become Apple's car platform. Apple's self-driving software would apparently run on top of this core operating system, and is being developed by a separate team.

The self-driving team is using virtual reality to test its autonomous driving software. Apparently Doug Bowman, who developed a simulation room at Virginia Tech, is working on dveloping a simulator that could allow Apple to test its self-driving software without taking a car out onto a public road.

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