Apple sought partnerships with BMW and Mercedes-Benz to develop an all-electric self-driving vehicle, but on-again, off-again talks with those companies have ended after each rebuffed Apple’s
requirements to hand over control of the data and design, some of the people said. Instead, Apple has signed a deal with Volkswagen to turn some of the carmaker’s new T6 Transporter vans into
Apple’s self-driving shuttles for employees.
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