Apple is developing digital license plates for its electric and autonomous car, or at least that's what a recent hire made by those from Cupertino suggests to us during the past weeks.
In order to fulfill its objective, the Apple company hired Rónán Ó Braonáin of the Reviver company, he being a software engineer who would have worked at the old company on a new digital license plate system for American cars, he was going to do the same thing at Apple.
Rónán Ó Braonáin he worked at Reviver for 5 months, but before that he was also employed by BMW, where the engineer produced applications connected to car entertainment systems, so his experience is quite vast.
Fine digital registration plate in the world developed by the company Reviver is able to monitor the location of the car, keep logs of all repairs and make automatic payments for the payment points on the American highways or the parking lots where the users enter.
Before going to work at Apple as a "Secret Agent" on "special projects" according to his LinkedIn profile, Rónán Ó Braonáin was Director of Engineering at Reviver, a stealth startup working on what Braonáin called "the world's first digital license plate". Prior to his stint at Reviver, Braonáin spent 5 years as a software engineer at BMW before becoming Chief Technology Officer at Vision Fleet.
Within Apple, Rónán Ó Braonáin does not describe his work, and this was perfectly normal because Apple forbids some employees to do these things, so Apple might want him to work in other departments as well, not only in the one that would could develop a digital license plate.
To develop its electric and autonomous car, the Apple company hired a multitude of people from Tesla, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Chrystler, NVIDIA, Volkswagen, Ford, Daimler and more, so theoretically we should see a product extremely interesting.
