Apple's autonomous car fleet now 45 vehicles strong

Last January,
the fleet of Apple test vehicles
reached 27 cars. Now, according to newspaper information
Financial
Times, they would count110 cars, which would make
Californian firm the second largest company in the world in terms of number of
autonomous cars being tested, behindGeneral Motorsand in front
Tesla, Uber and maybe even Google:

In any case, this is what Apple Insider and journalist Roger indicate
Fingas, according to which Google, or ratherAlphabetand his project
autonomous carWaymowould currently have less than one
fifty vehicles being tested in the United States, when Tesla would have fewer
of 40 and Uber less than 30.

The most active company would beGeneral Motors, with 110 cars
autonomousin testing at the moment. Apple would therefore be second in this
ranking, with its45 test vehicles.

The number of test cars in the Apple Car project is therefore
growing, it was initially at 3 in April 2017,as
vu is, then went up to
27 in 2018, to reach 45 to date.

However, the Californian firm is still carrying out tests in
internal only, on public road network in California and perhaps also
on track in Arizonaas
vu is. On the competition side, Waymo has already launched a testing program
its cars by the general public.

But knowing Apple and the firm's desire not to rush to
being among the first, we can well imagine that the tests and trials risk
last a while longer. According to rumors, the first vehicle equipped with a
autonomous driving system made by Applewould not see the light of day before
2020.

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