The letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration from Steve Kenner, Apple's director of product integrity, confirms what was already known: the company has a program to develop automated driving systems. Apple wants explicit wording in the new rules that would do that for driverless "internal development vehicles." Over the past year, there's been little more to go on beyond rumors, speculation and personnel changes about Apple's car plans. At the start of 2016, Vice President of Design Steve Zadesky, a former Ford engineer who'd apparently led Apple's car program from its inception in 2014, reportedly left that role. Apple's circumspect public comments indicate the company is keeping its options open, while committing to nothing.

Source: Forbes December 05, 2016 18:58 UTC