Information about testing of the Titan Project, Apple's future self-guided car system. What comes up is never disclosed by Ma itself, but by external agencies, so much so that no one even knows where the progress of the initiative lies in Cupertino's holdings.
Well, if this data released recently by Department of Motor Vehicles (Department of Motor Vehicles, equivalent to our Detran) Californian are of any value we can say that progress is not so encouraging.
The website The Last Driver License Holder captured data released recently by DMV and focused on one specific information: the disengagement index per kilometer traveled, that is, the number of times test drivers have taken control of the cars (either by themselves or system instruction) in relation to the total miles traveled by the vehicles. And Apple is doing very badly on this metric:
According to the data, Apple's test vehicles averaged about 544.78 occurrences of disengagement every 1,000 kilometers traveled, that is, almost one fault every two kilometers, which is a very worrying index. Things get even worse when you notice that Ma is in last place on a list of 25 companies in which the champion (the Waymo, from Google) recorded only 0.06 occurrences of the type every 1,000km an index about 11,000 times (!) higher than the Cupertino company.
The data refer to tests conducted between December 2017 and November 2018, and are submitted by the companies themselves, as directed by California law. Even so, it is good not to take numbers as definitive indicators of the performance of each manufacturer after all, it may be that companies with better numbers simply adopt a more liberal methodology when recording their disengagement occurrences.
Anyway, the stark difference is that Apple may be eating dust in the tests against its main competitors. To be?
via AppleInsider
