Apple meets with California DMV officials to discuss autonomous vehicles

A handful of high-ranking California Department of Motor Vehicles officials met with Apple employees in April to discuss facets of the company's ongoing autonomous car program, according to a report on Tuesday.

Mikey Campbell 8 years ago 26

Apple's heads-up display tech for self-driving cars uses AR to enhance driver safety

Apple's work on augmented reality could find a place in its ongoing automotive initiative, with the company considering ways to use AR to show information about the road ahead, including things that are out of the driver's vision.

Malcolm Owen 8 years ago 51

Apple nabs Google's chief of AI and search John Giannandrea to broaden Siri, self-driving car programs

Apple has hired John Giannandrea away from Google to head up Apple's machine learning and AI strategy, and will report directly to CEO Tim Cook.

Mike Wuerthele 8 years ago 44

Apple's self-driving car test fleet up to 45 vehicles navigating California roads

Apple is rapidly growing the number of self-driving test vehicles it has in its home state, putting it at second place there behind only General Motors' Cruise subsidiary.

Roger Fingas 8 years ago 25

Uber unlikely to blame for self-driving car fatality, says police chief

Following the death late Sunday of a woman who was struck and killed by a self-driving Uber car in Arizona, we now know more about the circumstances of the tragedy, which has a chance to shake public trust in autonomous car technology.

Stephen Silver 8 years ago 47

Apple likely to be 'all-in or all-out' of self-driving cars within 2 years, analyst argues

Apple's experimentation with autonomous car technology is likely to veer away from creating a simple platform and back towards a fully self-designed vehicle, one analyst argues.

Roger Fingas 8 years ago 25

California green-lights driverless car testing statewide, operations can begin in April

As anticipated, the California Department of Motor Vehicles on Monday received approval from the California Office of Administrative Law to enact a set of regulations that will allow companies to test remotely operated autonomous vehicles on public roads.

Mikey Campbell 8 years ago 12

Self-driving test cars with remote control backup could hit California roads in April

If approved, new Californian regulations could allow companies like Apple to test their self-driving platforms with remote backup, instead of putting a human behind the wheel.

Roger Fingas 8 years ago 33

Apple now has 27 self-driving Lexus cars on the road in California

The state of California has now permitted Apple to have 27 self-driving cars on its public roads, as the company expands its homegrown automated driving technology, internally known as "Project Titan."

Neil Hughes 8 years ago 13

Apple AI director talks advances in machine learning & mapping for self-driving car platform

Apple's director of AI research, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, gave peers a small glimpse into the company's self-driving platform this week, discussing some internal projects at the NIPS machine learning conference.

Roger Fingas 8 years ago 13

Apple rumored to be using Arizona proving grounds to test self-driving cars

Apple may be leasing former Fiat Chrysler proving grounds in Surprise, Ariz. to test its self-driving car platform in a range of different conditions, according to a report.

Roger Fingas 8 years ago 16

Apple research paper details LiDAR-based 3D object recognition for autonomous vehicle navigation

Apple researchers are pushing forward with efforts to bring autonomous vehicle systems to public roads, and last week published an academic paper outlining a method of detecting objects in 3D point clouds using trainable neural networks. While still in its early stages, the technology could mature to improve accuracy in LiDAR navigation solutions.

Mikey Campbell 8 years ago 15

Podcast

AppleInsider podcast discusses iPhone 8 production, FM radios, and Apple acquiring a health company

Victor Marks 8 years ago 3

Echoing Apple's $1B investment in Didi Chuxing, Alphabet sinks $1B into Lyft

In a deal that values Lyft at $11 billion, Google's parent company Alphabet has invested $1 billion into the ride sharing service, more than a year after Apple placed its own $1 billion bet on Chinese taxi provider Didi Chuxing.

Neil Hughes 8 years ago 20

New video rumored to show close-up of Apple car's updated 'Project Titan' testbed

A short video clip is said to show updated test hardware for Apple's self-driving car platform, suggesting that the company is making some progress.

Roger Fingas 8 years ago 30

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