Just last year, Apple was in the backseat of an increasingly crowded competition for self-driving cars with Google-owned Waymo, Tesla and Uber vying for an edge.
Apple had just three permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to operate self-driving cars.
But now, the Cupertino, Calif., tech giant is reaping the fruits of its ramped-up investment in the new technology, beating out Tesla and Waymo for the second-most self-driving car permits with DMV, according to a report from the Apple-focused tech blog Mac Reports.
