Apple在加州註冊了自駕車測試 - BMW

DMV剛剛更新了網站，現在總共有29家廠商已經申請在加州測試自駕車技術

Apple則是第一次申請

DMV發言人說Apple共申請了3輛Lexus 2015 RX450h，六名測試車手


以前Musk就說過，Google不會自己造車，但是Apple會

但Apple的Project Titan似乎遇到不小的阻礙，很久沒聽說有什麼進展

這次申請測試自駕車應該能夠說明Apple還沒有完全放棄

只是到最後會不會自己造車就不知道了

畢竟像Apple這種公司燒錢研發到最後放棄讓產品上市也是常有的事情

目前在加州已經註冊測試自駕車的有以下29家：


Volkswagen Group of America
Mercedes Benz
Google
Delphi Automotive
Tesla Motors
Bosch
Nissan
GM Cruise LLC
BMW
Honda
Ford
Zoox, Inc.
Drive.ai, Inc.
Faraday & Future Inc.
Baidu USA LLC
Wheego Electric Cars Inc.
Valeo North America, Inc.
NextEV USA, Inc.
Telenav, Inc.
NVIDIA Corporation
AutoX Technologies Inc
Subaru
Udacity, Inc
Navya Inc.
Renovo Motors Inc
UATC LLC (Uber)
PlusAi Inc
Nuro, Inc
CarOne LLC
Apple Inc.

DMV:https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/testing

以下原文：====================================================================
https://goo.gl/ohqLkE

Apple has an official permit to test self-driving cars in California, DMV
confirms

Apple has received a permit to test autonomous cars in California, the
first official confirmation that the maker of the iPhone sees the
century-old automobile as a product that's ripe for reinvention and a
reflection of its need to tap new markets to sustain its growth.

The California DMV updated its website on Friday, adding Apple to 29
other companies testing self-driving vehicles in the state, including
Tesla and Google.

This is confirmation that Apple continues to work on a self-driving car,
which the company has not previously discussed in public or confirmed
beyond an advisory letter to the NHTSA in December.

The DMV says that any manufacturer of autonomous technologies must apply
to the California DMV before it can test a vehicle in autonomous mode on
public roads.

Apple declined to comment about whether Apple is currently testing
autonomous vehicles on public roads and pointed to a previous statement
that it is "investing heavily in machine learning and autonomous systems."

"Today, April 14, 2017, California Department of Motor Vehicles issued
Apple Inc. an autonomous vehicle test permit. The permit covers three
vehicles, all 2015 Lexus RX540h, and six drivers," a DMV spokeswoman told
Business Insider.

Confirmation
2015 Lexus RX 350 front three quarters
This is the car that Apple listed in its application to test its
autonomous platform.Lexus

While Apple's work in the automotive world is an open secret, it has
never officially confirmed the existence of a project before Friday.

"It's going to be Christmas Eve for a while," Apple CEO Tim Cook once
said about the project.

Apple has what appears to be a mostly separate organization of 1000
employees working on what it calls "Project Titan" in Sunnyvale,
California and other satellite offices. Apple has also been linked to a
private course in California where secretive companies test self-driving
cars.

Last year, the project hit some snags, though, and Apple was forced to
bring on Bob Mansfield, a respected engineer, to cut back the scope of
the project and set new goals, according to reporting from Bloomberg.
Apple is believed be be primarily working on autonomous software, instead
of a full car, but the project is still shrouded in secrecy.

Apple is expected to assess the progress it has made on self-driving cars
at the end of this year, according to Bloomberg.

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