While there hasn’t been a ton of Apple Car news of late, a recent rumor through the supply chain has stated that Apple is said to be in “preliminary cooperation negotiations” with well-known automotive electronics suppliers as it continues to hire new employees from Tesla and other manufacturers. Apple is working with “upstream and downstream” […]
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Even though it’s been a rough project, Apple’s self-driving car effort may have crossed a new milestone. Apple is reportedly in discussions with a number of component suppliers regarding LiDAR sensors that could be used in Apple’s self-driving cars. The company, which has already produced a variety of sensor test beds for its fleet of […]
There’s an adage about omelettes and broken eggs… An Apple Lexus SUV test car was rear-ended by a Nissan Leaf while merging onto the Lawrence Expressway in California’s Bay Area on August 24th. The Apple vehicle suffered “moderate” damage and the Leaf, which was moving at 15 miles per hour, was also damaged. While details […]
Apple’s added another powerhouse staff member to its self-driving car team lineup in the form of Jaime Waydo, previously a senior engineer at Alphabet’s Waymo as well as NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Waydo was “instrumental” at Waymo, some of her former coworkers have stated. Specifically, she was responsible for checking the safety of prototypes, and […]
Less than two weeks after snagging permission to test it test its autonomous-car technology in California, Apple appears to be testing its software on California’s public roads. A white Lexus RX450h SUV was seen emerging from an Apple facility, complete with a battery of attached sensors. The sensors included Velodyne Lidar Inc.’s top-of-the-range 64-channel lidar, […]