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Apple Ramped Up Autonomous Vehicle Testing Last Year, Filings Show | Government records show Apple’s secretive auto division almost quadrupled its self-driving miles in 2023


Government records show Apple’s secretive auto division almost quadrupled its self-driving miles in 2023.

Apple’s testing totals are well below those of more advanced autonomous vehicle developers’, though the state’s reporting guidelines make them difficult to compare directly. The data published by the California government today is even more interesting in the context of a Bloomberg report from last month, which said that Apple had downgraded its ambitions to build a self-driving electric car. Apple’s car project has had a long and tortuous history, complicated by the fact that the company rarely comments publicly on the effort.

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