It’s official, or as official as Apple gets until the secretive company one day announces its automotive ambitions at a well-choreographed tech conference: the Cupertino giant is working on self-driving cars.
Apple talked about California’s rules for autonomous vehicles last month with top officials from the California Department of Motor Vehicles, the agency confirmed Friday, offering the clearest evidence yet of Apple’s long-rumored automotive ambitions.
“DMV often meets with various companies regarding DMV operations,” said an emailed statement from DMV spokesman Armando Botello. “The Apple meeting was to review DMV’s autonomous vehicle regulations.”
The Guardian first reported the news of the DMV meeting on Friday. Documents show Apple has set up an automotive technology headquarters off the Central Expressway in Sunnyvale, and multiple reports have shown that the company has been poaching engineering talent with robotics and other relevant experience from the auto industry and elsewhere.
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Above: In this image released by CBS, Apple CEO Tim Cook, left, appears with host Stephen Colbert on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, ” Tuesday Sept. 15, 2015, in New York. Cook dodged Colbert’s question about self-driving cars. (Jeffrey R. Staab/CBS via AP)
