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Apple and Google have yet to announce any plans of mass-producing self-driving cars, but that hasn鈥檛 stopped them from stealing the show among international automakers.聽

鈥淭he mere knowledge that Apple has a team of several hundred people working on car designs changed the conversation this week at the Frankfurt International Motor Show,鈥� wrote The New York Times. 鈥淎long with Google, Apple has focused the minds of auto executives on the challenge posed by new technologies that have the potential to disrupt traditional auto industry hierarchies.鈥澛�

While buzz at the conference is usually centered on horsepower and torque, this year smart cars are all the rage, reports the Times.

Google has been making headlines since testing its autonomous cars in public. A particular highlight came this summer as it was involved in an accident with another car in Mountain View, California, 海角大神 reported.

And for the past year, Apple has been hiring engineers left and right for its secret electric car project, known only as Titan, according to the Monitor. Bloomberg reported earlier this year that the company wouldn鈥檛 begin production until 2020.

But a new report from The Guardian on Friday shows that Apple executives met with officials from California鈥檚 Department of Motor Vehicles last month, in a move 鈥渢o review [the] DMV鈥檚 autonomous vehicle regulations.鈥�

While DMV officials declined to elaborate beyond that statement, the meeting suggests that the vehicle 鈥渋s almost ready for public view,鈥� wrote the newspaper.

Given all the secrecy, one might ask: What鈥檚 all the fuss about? For automakers, it鈥檚 mostly about money, according to the Times.

While John Krafcik, who heads up Google鈥檚 self-driving car program, has denied that the company has plans of becoming a car manufacturer, concerns continue to swirl: