The development status of self-driving cars developed by Apple, Waymo, and Cruise has been revealed, and what is the degree of perfection of the self-driving technology of the three companies?



In order for self-driving car developers to test drive in California, they are required to report to the California Department of Motor Vehicles the mileage and the number of times human intervention is required. From

what self-driving car developers such as Apple and Waymo, which develop self-driving cars, reported to the California Department of Motor Vehicles, the status of self-driving car development of each company is known.

Apple Self-Driving Cars Tests More Than Doubled in 2020 --Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-09/apple-more-than-doubled-road-tests-of-autonomous-cars-in-2020

◆ Apple
Apple conducted a test run of 18805 miles in California in 2020. That's more than double the 2019 test mileage of 7544 miles (about 12,141 km).

In addition, 130 human operations were performed during the test run in 2020. This is a calculation performed by humans at a frequency of 'once every 145 miles (about 233 km)' when converted. This frequency was 'once every 118 miles (about 190 km)' in 2019 and 'once every 118 miles (about 190 km)' in 2018, and Apple's autonomous driving technology has been in use for two years. You can see that it has improved significantly.

Apple is known to employ dozens of former Tesla employees, but it was reported that in February 2021 it hired a new Porsche chassis development manager, and self-driving car development Is expected to accelerate further.

Apple hires Porsche chassis development manager, self-driving car development project accelerates-GIGAZINE



◆ Cruise

Cruise , a self-driving car developer owned by General Motors, conducted a 770,000 mile (about 1.24 million km) test run in 2020. Human intervention was required once every 28,520 miles (about 45,898 km), a significant improvement from once every 12,221 miles (about 19,668 km) in 2019.

Kyle Vogt , President and Chief Technology Officer of Cruise, said, 'We conducted a 200,000 mile (about 320,000 km) test run in the last three months of 2020. It didn't require any operation by, 'he emphasized that Cruise's autonomous driving technology was gradually becoming more complete in 2020.

Cruise received a $ 2 billion investment from Microsoft in January 2021, and it is reported that it will utilize Microsoft's cloud computing platform Azure.

Microsoft invests in 'Cruise', which develops self-driving cars under GM, to compete with Google-based 'Waymo' --GIGAZINE



◆ Waymo

Waymo , which became independent of Google and became part of Alphabet, conducted a test run of 628,839 miles (about 1.01 million km) in 2020. Of these, 21 were required to be operated by humans, which was the lowest frequency among the three companies, Apple, Cruise, and Waymo, which was 'once every 30,000 miles (48,000 km)'.

Since October 2020, Waymo has been providing a completely unmanned taxi service ' Waymo One ' in some areas.

What is the safety of riding the 'Waymo' self-driving car more than 60 times? --GIGAZINE

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