The Apple logo: coming to a vehicle near you?
Posted on 09/18/2015 2:41:51 PM PDT by Swordmaker
The meeting in California, which is developing regulations for driverless vehicles, suggest the technology giant is close to unveiling an autonomous automobile
Apple executives have discussed their plans for an “autonomous vehicle” with officials at California’s department of motor vehicles (DMV), the Guardian has learnt.
According to documents obtained by the Guardian, Mike Maletic, a senior legal counsel at Apple, had an hour-long meeting on 17 August with the department’s self-driving car experts Bernard Soriano, DMV deputy director, and Stephanie Dougherty, chief of strategic planning, who are co-sponsors of California’s autonomous vehicle regulation project, and Brian Soublet, the department’s deputy director and chief counsel.
The discussions come as Google and Uber are both advancing their plans to develop self-driving cars. Google already has a fleet of robot cars on the streets of California and is planning to have several hundred built in the near future.
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Only in California. The world’s largest outdoor insane asylum. Expect anything.
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Sad to say, I cannot disagree with that assessment. . . and I live here.
“..Sad to say, I cannot disagree with that assessment. . . and I live here..”
Yep, me too, and I have lived here most of my life. Plenty of time to remember back 30+ years when it was a respectable, sane, well-governed state and held the position of NUMBER ONE among all states in just about every metric that is meaningful. NUMBER ONE.
Now look at it. At or near the bottom of the same metrics. And it is no secret as to why it is such a mess now.
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