These five patents offer hints about what an Apple car could look like

New York CNN Business — Talk of a possible Apple car is back. In this way, a passenger could read the page as a fixed object in the external environment while still seeing visual cues about the car’s movements, allowing them to “work, view, or read in comfort without experiencing motion sickness as may occur if the passenger was trying to work or view the content on a physical screen on a portable computing device sitting on their lap,” the patent states. What’s more, it notes that VR experiences in a moving vehicle could provide “enhanced immersive virtual experiences” to passengers that aren’t possible from, say, a VR entertainment system in one room of your home. ‘System and method for dynamic privacy and window tinting’ Conventional car windows can’t adapt the amount of light they let through to factors like who is riding in the vehicle, what they’re doing or what the weather is like outside, this patent notes, and therefore would “benefit from many improvements.” The invention described in this patent is a tinted film covering on the exterior of a vehicle that adjusts based on data from various sensors, as well as “explicit” and “implicit requests or commands for tinting.” For example, at nighttime, the system could automatically lessen the tinting level so a vehicle passenger could see light through the window, such as from streetlights and other cars. It’s a method whereby your “portable computing device” — say, your iPhone — could communicate with either your car or the parking structure using a wireless connection like Bluetooth to help locate your vehicle.