More Apple Car Details: Apple’s Secret Team and Objective.de
Reading Time: 2 minutes All Apple filings to the California DMV obtained by macReports yesterday through a public records request contained the brand, model, and plate and VIN number of the vehicles and the names of many individuals that Apple names as the official “driver/operators” of these autonomous vehicles. According to these documents, Apple autonomous cars consist of 2015/2016/2017 Lexus RX450h SUVs .
There are a total of 94 vehicles for testing. The number is higher than the actual number of cars (Apple has 62 autonomous vehicles) because, as we were told by the DMV, manufacturers often change the number of cars and drivers.
There are more than 100 drivers. One of the drivers is Alexander Dratva. It seems that Dratva is still working for a German company called Objective (its website is no longer active). It seems that this company is a consulting company and its main focus is on autonomous cars. According to the company’s web site, Dratva is a “core” member of the company and one of the line manager responsible for “HD Maps”. Is this company working for Apple? Objective and Dratva did not respond to a request for comment on this story at the time of publication. Apple also did not respond to a request for comment.
Here are the full list of Apple’s drivers: (Some names are listed more than once, because Apple’s documents list them more than once, we were told by the DMV that it is possible that they could be they were removed and then added back).
- Moritz Niendorf
- Xavier Mendez
- Ronald Noda
- Ashton Bjaranson
- David Flohr
- Dimitar Lukarski
- Abhijit Kallapur
- Donald Lewis
- Alvin Sangco
- Marcus Cunningham
- Juddson Rivera
- Noel Du Toit
- Eric Dutton
- David Flohr
- Christopher Gadda
- Adwait Gandhe
- Ryan Gibbs
- Aaron Hansen
- Paul Hebert
- Robert Hertan
- Scott Heugly
- Gabriel Hoffman
- Victor Hwang
- Luke Johnson
- Abhijit Kallapur
- Shahab Kaynama
- Christian Kim
- Jacoby Larson
- Timothy Lee
- Martin Levihn
- Mark Lillie
- Dimitar Lukarski
- Xavier Mendez
- Nicholas Muyo
- Moritz Niendorf
- Ronald Noda
- Mihael Packard
- Jeffrey Pacoma
- Srichand Pendyala
- Piccini Tommaso
- Daniel Pickem
- Adam Ragatz
- Juddson Rivera
- David Rosas
- Alvin Sangco
- Michael Sherback
- Eric Shin
- Stefan Solyom
- Raleigh St Clair
- Siddarth Swaminathan
- Adam Watson
- Roger Encarnacion
- Ronald Gully
- Orlando Martinez
- Gary Stricklin
- Ronald Ward
- Moses Barreras
- Roberto Barrera
- Jeffrey Dick
- Daniel Dower
- Cornelius Johnson
- Robert Ciano
- Christopher Melendez
- Richard Persson
- Adam Shover
- Charles Blumberg
- Christopher Barnes
- Evan Georgewill
- Johannes Huennekens
- Kenneth Price
- Lawrence Mao
- Tobias Wong
- Richard Zenteno
- Ryan Batte
- Vanessa Gonzalez
- James Reed
- Shilpa Gulati
- Paul Hebert
- Jeremy Ma
- David Rosas
- Christopher Gadda
- Victor Hwang
- Anthony Battaglia
- Nikolaus Roetemeyer
- Felix Chan
- Carlos De Massera Filho
- Valerio De Carolis
- Eric Dutton
- Lowell Caerlang
- Michael Aldea
- Sage Wolfe
- Gaurav Ahuja
- Caesar Alvarado
- Kenneth Arimoto
- Joseph bass
- Michael Bentley Mills
- John Birmingham
- Ashton Bjaranson
- Connor Brew
- Koabi Brooks
- Richard Casillas
- Marcus Cunningham
- Gino De Nardi
- Alexander Dratva
- Hector Martinon
- Adam Watson
- Ryan Gibbs
- Tommaso Piccini
- Noel Du Toit
- Luke Johnson
- Gaurav Ahuja
- Jacoby Lerson
- Daniel Pickem
- Eric Shin
- Adwait Gandhe
- Aaron Hansen
- Christian Kim
- James Borders
- Joseph Bass
- Conner Brew
- Srichland Pendyala
- Martin Levinh
- Joshua Redding
- Kenneth Arimoto
- Gino Denardi
- Nicholas Muyo
- Michael Packard
- Raleigh St Claire
- Siddharth Swaminathan
One other thing is that Apple also changed its address (the department, product integrity department, responsible for autonomous vehicles) to One Apple Park Way.
Article history:
- Edited on April 5, 2022 to fix a broken link.
