INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Apple's self-driving car has been spotted again on a public road, and this new sighting reveals some notable changes from the last time the
vehicle was caught on camera, suggesting Apple's self-driving car tech has possibly undergone another update.On Wednesday, we saw an
into the parking lot for a cluster of Apple office buildings at the Sunnyvale Research Center, a complex leased by Apple, before it pulled
back out onto the road.The vehicle featured an array of lidar sensors, cameras and GPS on its roof and rear driver-side wheel, add-ons that
belowThe biggest change between this car and previous Apple car sightings is that the lidar sensors and cameras are much more
Additionally, this vehicle has three LIDAR total on the rear of the roof rig, down from the six seen previously.It's possible Apple simply
did away with lidar and camera casings and made some configuration adjustments in this model while keeping the actual technology the
any longer.Apple self-driving car developmentsOur sighting comes just over a week after it was revealed Apple now has 55 self-driving cars
in its fleet, second most in California behind GM Cruise and ahead of Google's Waymo, which has 51 self-driving cars under its permit in the
Golden State.Apple's self-driving car project, codenamed Project Titan, is growing, but it's what Apple ultimately plans to do with its
confirmed in 2017 that Apple's interests, at least at the time, were in building the AI systems that power self-driving cars.As Apple
continues to develop its self-driving car tech and put vehicles on the road, the self-driving car landscape is in a state of flux
Some companies are forging ahead with their own self-driving car plans, while others are moving backwards.It was announced on Wednesday that
Uber is shutting down its self-driving car program in Arizona, two months after an Uber self-driving car struck and killed a pedestrian in
Tempe.Google's Waymo, meanwhile, is moving closer to launching a driverless ride-hailing service, and we recently saw the all-electric
Jaguar I-Pace that will be part of Waymo's fleet at this month's Google IO 2018.We've asked Apple for comment for this story, and will
update this article if we hear back.Will Apple talk about its self-driving car plans at WWDC 2018
