Here's the aspect of self-driving car testing that's not dominated by Apple or Google

Last week, Apple's secretive, self-driving car project got some attention for adding more cars approved for testing in California.

But despite the company's big name and the heightened curiosity over the iPhone-maker's foray into autonomous vehicles, the winner here is not the company you'd expect.

We looked at the past few months of reports from the California DMV's self-driving permit program to see which of the 50-plus (and growing) companies involved are stepping up its testing. Only two companies — Waymo, the self-driving car program from Google, and one other that has not been publicly revealed at this time — have applied for permits for the state's truly driverless testing program, which would allow for an empty vehicle. Read more...