At the start of the yr, Apple hit a excessive level with 201 drivers registered for its autonomous car testing. Now knowledge from the California DMV exhibits that Apple has made a major staffing change by eliminating 56 drivers from the pilot program.
Detailed by macReports, the quantity of drivers Apple has employed to assist with autonomous car (AV) testing has grown persistently from slightly below 80 in the summertime of 2021 to over 200 in early 2023.
Now Apple’s newest submitting with the California DMV exhibits that it lower simply over 25% of drivers with the quantity dropping from 201 to 145. That brings the depend again to 2020-2021 numbers.
As for the variety of automobiles registered for AV testing, that solely decreased by one from 67 final time to 66 as of April 28. Apple nonetheless hasn’t utilized with the DMV to do driverless AV testing like Waymo, Cruise, and Nuro.
Right here’s a have a look at each metrics over time:
With the newest knowledge in, right here’s how Apple’s AV pilot program appears to be like vs the competitors:
As a refresher, Apple Automobile continues to be within the works however isn’t anticipated to reach earlier than 2026 and self-driving might have been scrapped for the primary era.
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