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It seems that Apple is wasting no time in trying to change the way things are being done. It’s been not even a month since it was discovered that Apple was granted permission to testing their self-driving technology on California roads and it looks like the company wants to change how things are being done.
In a report from Reuters, Apple has sent in a letter to the California DMV and asked them to change their policy when it comes to reporting disengagements with regards to self-driving cars. For those wondering, disengagements is when a self-driving car stops driving itself and controls are handed back to its accompanying human driver. Sometimes this is intentional, sometimes it can be accidental, but California’s rules state that all incidents of disengagement need to be reported.
Apple claims that inconsistencies in how disengagements are reported could lead to the public being misled or confused with regards to the safety/viability of the technology. “Apple believes that public acceptance is essential to the advancement of automated vehicles. Access to transparent and intuitive data on the safety of the vehicles being tested will be central to gaining public acceptance. However, the current and proposed disengagement reporting requirements do not achieve this result.”
Whether or not this will happen remains to be seen. In the meantime photos of Apple’s self-driving test car has already been spotted on the roads making its round.
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