Apple is working on creating a car -WSJ
By Abhirup Roy and Alexei Oreskovic
Feb 13 (Reuters) - Apple Inc has a secret lab working on the 創造 of an Apple-branded electric car, the 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物 報告（する）／憶測d on Friday, 特記する／引用するing people familiar with the 事柄.
The 事業／計画（する） has designed a 乗り物 that looks like a minivan, the newspaper 引用するd one person as 説. It would take years to finish the 事業／計画（する）, and it is not 確かな if Apple will 結局 build a car, the 定期刊行物 said. (http://on.wsj.com/1zBD9sL)
The news signals that Apple is はっきりと raising its ambitions for 自動推進の 科学（工学）技術, which has become a prime area of 利益／興味 for Silicon Valley companies 範囲ing from Google Inc to ride-株ing 会社／堅い Uber to electric car-製造者 Tesla モーターs Inc.
The connected car, or 乗り物s with a 十分な 範囲 of Internet and ソフトウェア services beyond mere 航海 and communications, is considered one of the ripest areas for 拡大 for 科学（工学）技術 companies.
Last March, Apple 明かすd CarPlay, which lets drivers 接近 接触するs on their iPhones, make calls or listen to voicemails without taking their 手渡すs off the steering wheel.
Now, the 長，率いる of Mercedes-Benz's Silicon Valley 研究 and 開発 部隊, Johann Jungwirth, has defected to Apple, によれば a LinkedIn profile, which said his 肩書を与える was 長，率いる of Mac Systems 工学.
Apple did not 答える／応じる to a request for comment.
The 財政上の Times 報告（する）／憶測d earlier that Apple had created the sec ret lab and that Jungwirth had joined the new 研究 team. (http://on.ft.com/1A4ELi5)
Two sources told Reuters that Apple has recently tried to 新採用する from the 自動推進の 産業 in fields such as ロボット工学.
The 研究 lab was 始める，決める up late last year, soon after Apple 明らかにする／漏らすd its 来たるべき smart watch and 最新の iPhones, the 財政上の Times said.
The 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物 said that the Apple 事業／計画（する）, code-指名するd "巨人," 雇うd several hundred people working a few miles from Apple's （警察，軍隊などの）本部 in Cupertino, California.
Apple (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs have met with 契約 製造業者s 含むing Magna Steyr, a 部隊 of Magna International Inc . A Magna spokeswoman 拒絶する／低下するd to comment.
Google is working on 計画（する）s for a self-運動ing car, but that is not part of Apple's 計画（する）, the 定期刊行物 said.
Trying to design and build an actual car would 示す a change for the iPhone 製造者, which 研究s and discards plenty of 事業／計画（する）s but has so far おもに stuck to its 核心 専門的知識 in 動きやすい and electronic 装置s.
But it has been open about wanting to 統合する its 核心 iOS ソフトウェア into automobiles with CarPlay.
Along with HomeKit and HealthKit, the idea is to 延長する Apple's ソフトウェア dominance into 産業s 含むing home 装置s, healthcare, and automobiles. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Abhirup Roy in Bengaluru and Alexei Oreskovic in San Francisco; Editing by Edwin Chan, Joyjeet Das, Christian Plumb, Peter Henderson and Lisa Shumaker)
