Kuo: Apple Car back on track, coming within 5-7 years
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes the iPhone maker is positioning itself to introduce an automobile in three to five years.
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Apple adds senior Waymo engineer to self-driving car team
Apple has picked up another high profile engineer for its self-driving car project. The Information reports that the company has hired Jaime Waydo, an autonomous vehicle expert who previously worked at NASA, and was more recently a senior engineer at Google’s Waymo division.
Apple partners with Volkswagen to turn vans into driverless cars
Apple’s dream of producing driverless cars has moved forward, but not in the grandiose way it once hoped. The iPhone maker and Volkswagen are partnering to turn some of the German carmaker’s new T6 Transporter vans into self-driving shuttles for Apple employees.
Apple possibly leasing previously-owned Chrysler site for testing autonomous vehicles
Apple’s autonomous car project is an open secret in Silicon Valley. The latest update comes from a report on Jalopnik that asserts Apple is leasing the a proving ground previously owned by Fiat-Chrysler.
Video: Apple’s top-heavy, self-driving Lexus SUV
Apple’s sensor-laden self-driving vehicle looks much different than it did the last time we saw it.
As many as 17 Project Titan engineers have left Apple for secretive automotive startup Zoox
More than a dozen engineers who had been working on Apple’s car project have joined Zoox, an automotive startup working on self-driving systems of its own.
Apple’s autonomous driving technology focused on the ride hailing market
Apple’s scaled-down Project Titan unit is still in turmoil, but it’s hiring again and apparently eyeing the ride hailing market.
NYT: Apple’s car ambitions scaled back to in-house campus shuttle service
Project Titan’s reduced scale is now focused on PAIL, a shuttle service designed to transport Apple’s employees between corporate buildings in Silicon Valley.
Cook: Apple has “a large project going” in terms of autonomous systems
Apple is making a big investment in autonomous driving and has “a large project going” in that space, according to the company’s chief executive.
Tim Cook confirms Apple working on autonomous driving software
Apple CEO Tim Cook has officially confirmed in a WWDC interview with Bloomberg Television that his company is working on autonomous driving software. He wouldn’t say if there’s an iCar in the works though.
Apple hires former NASA veterans for augmented reality and self-driving software testing
Apple has gone to space to find additional talent for its augmented reality efforts and self-driving software testing, as revealed in a rare bureaucratic mistake.
Apple receives permit to test self-driving cars in California
Apple was added to the list of 29 other companies, including Tesla, Google, Ford and Mercedes, that are testing or planning to test self-driving vehicles in the state of California, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles’s (DMV) website Friday.
The permit allows Apple to test vehicles in autonomous mode on public roads.
It’s unclear if Apple sought to obtain a permit because it wanted to test-drive its own autonomous vehicles or if the company was simply looking to experiment with the rumored autonomous driving features in a future CarPlay version.