AppleInsider:

The California Department of Motor Vehicles has released a letter it received from Apple concerning the “Project Titan” self-driving vehicle project’s disengagement rates, with the letter advising how Apple is collecting data on incidents where a driver takes over for the automated driving system, and why the number is so high.

“Apple’s approach to disengagements is conservative, because our system is not yet designed to operate in all conditions and situations,” writes Apple’s senior director of Autonomous Systems Engineering Jamie Waydo. “To support this approach, our public road testing policies require drivers to proactively take manual control of the vehicle any time the system encounters a scenario beyond our currently proven abilities.”

When I first read this story on Tuesday, I thought there might be something more to it. Turns out, Apple’s high number of “disengagements” is because of an overabundance of caution. Not a bad thing.