{"id":355367,"date":"2026-06-09T17:05:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/waymo-buys-apples-abandoned-self-driving-car-proving-ground-for-220m\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:05:42","slug":"waymo-buys-apples-abandoned-self-driving-car-proving-ground-for-220m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/waymo-buys-apples-abandoned-self-driving-car-proving-ground-for-220m\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo buys Apple\u2019s abandoned self-driving car proving ground for $220M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/06\/waymo-buys-apples-abandoned-self-driving-car-proving-ground-for-220m.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>Waymo has acquired a massive 5,500-acre autonomous vehicle proving ground in Wittmann, Arizona, for $220 million \u2014 nearly double the $125 million Apple paid for it in 2021. The facility was the centerpiece of Apple\u2019s now-dead self-driving car program. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/06\/09\/waymo-buys-apple-project-titan-proving-ground-220-million\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/waymo-buys-apples-abandoned-self-driving-car-proving-ground-for-220m\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":355368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}