Months after announcing that it would stop developing self-driving cars, apple We made it official.
According to recent information, report According to the website macReports, the tech giant contacted the California Department of Transportation last month to revoke the manufacturer’s testing permit for the self-driving vehicle program, which was in effect until April 30 of next year.
In February, Apple said it would end so-called Project Titan, the company’s multibillion-dollar, decade-long effort to develop fully autonomous electric vehicle (EV) products featuring luxury interiors and voice-guided driver experiences. Announced.
“Our company faces continued setbacks. recent approaches To rescue the EV sector, the final launch of the car will be pushed back to 2028, the self-driving benchmark will be lowered from Level 4 to Level 2+ technology, and the car will become a standard EV rather than a true self-driving car. were planning to change,” PYMNTS said. time. “But even with those concessions, that wasn’t the case.”
In other self-driving car news, Tesla’s self-driving car debuted last week. The long-awaited robotaxisCEO Elon Musk originally predicted it would arrive in 2020.
The rollout, at an event held along a fake street on the Warner Bros. campus in Los Angeles, was part of Mr. Musk’s larger plans for future autonomy.
“And the Hollywood setting is Hollywood style exaggeration Details of the event were not disclosed, but launch Although the schedule is heavy on promises including self-driving cars, cyber van and cyber taxiand the fully autonomous bipedal robot Optimus,” PYMNTS writes.
“The future is going to look like the future,” Musk said, adding that “autonomy will create the world we want.”
Among the details shared at Thursday’s “We, Robot” event: Tesla will begin manufacturing fully autonomous CyberCabs by 2026 or 2027, selling them for less than $30,000; It included a promise to debut a sister vehicle, the Robovan. Can transport up to 20 people.
These efforts come at a time when, according to PYMNTS Intelligence data: 75% of car companies Plan to integrate generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology into your operations.
“I believe in our whole lives. Not just carsBut every moving machine on earth will be automated. ” Anna BrunelCFO Mobility in Mayhe said in an interview here in February. “And the smart infrastructure that oversees and supports it will also be automated.”
