Company / division: Project Titan
Apple Car Engineers Leave for Electric Mobility Startup Zoox (Aug 30, 2017)
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★ Apple’s Car Project Suffered From Lack of Focus, Reports New York Times (Aug 23, 2017)
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Apple is Reportedly Partnering with Chinese Battery Maker CATL (Jul 21, 2017)
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★ Apple Leases Cars from Hertz for Autonomous Technology Testing (Jun 26, 2017)
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★ Tim Cook Confirms Apple is Working on Autonomous Driving Systems (Jun 13, 2017)
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Apple Asks California DMV to Tweak Reporting Requirements for Autonomous Driving (Apr 28, 2017)
Apple has filed a letter with the California DMV requesting some changes to its reporting requirements for the testing of self-driving cars as well as some of the definitions it uses, in response to a request for feedback from the DMV in March. Apple formally received permission to test its cars a couple of weeks back, and is now taking a more active role in helping to shape policy around the topic, partly because at the end of the year it’ll have to report its performance to the DMV and the public. Apple’s biggest request relates to the reporting requirements for disengagements, the name given to a situation in which a driver has to take over from the autonomous system. Apple wants the definition of a disengagement to be narrowed to include only those necessary to avoid either crashes or traffic violations, and to exclude cases which are pre-determined (such as driving through a construction zone) or for which the technology explicitly isn’t designed. That would have the effect of reducing significantly the number of disengagements reported, which would further Apple’s stated goal (as outlined in the letter) of increasing public confidence in autonomous systems. It would also have the side effect of making Apple’s first year of testing look better than the first years of other companies which began testing earlier under the current definitions. The other changes Apple proposes are relatively minor and mostly appear intended to provide greater clarity and remove unintended restrictions on reasonable testing.
via CA DMV
Apple Driver Training for Autonomous Vehicles Detailed in Documents (Apr 21, 2017)
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Apple Receives Permission to Test Autonomous Vehicles in California (Apr 14, 2017)
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