Stefan Mileschin

Lays off more than 200 from Project Titan

Despite the claims of the Tame Apple Press, Apple is not trying to create a super, cool, game-changing self-driving car.

After all such invocation could solve the company’s bacon as its iPhone cash cow dies of mad-cow’s disease.

The speculation began when the Tame Apple Press discovered that Project Titan, which was the name of Apple’s failed self-driving car project was still active and had staff allocated to it.

In August, Apple enlisted a Tesla engineering vice president and Apple veteran, Doug Field, to lead the Titan team alongside Bob Mansfield.

However it appears that if Apple was preparing to dust off Project Titan, it has now given up on the idea.

Apple dismissed just over 200 employees this week from Project Titan, its stealthy autonomous vehicle group. Other employees who were impacted by the restructuring of Project Titan are staying at Apple but moving to different parts of the company.

An Apple spokesperson acknowledged the layoffs and said the company still sees opportunity in the space:

“We have an incredibly talented team working on autonomous systems and associated technologies at Apple. As the team focuses their work on several key areas for 2019, some groups are being moved to projects in other parts of the company, where they will support machine learning and other initiatives, across all of Apple,” the spokesperson said.

“We continue to believe there is a huge opportunity with autonomous systems, that Apple has unique capabilities to contribute, and that this is the most ambitious machine learning project ever.”

https://fudzilla.com/news/automotive...tomous-driving