Apple He worked for a long time on his own electric and self-driving car, which had the code name Project Titan. However, it seems that the Cupertino company has buried the plan to develop its own electric car once and for all. Further evidence of the failure of the secret project is that engineers working on Apple's autonomous vehicle are moving from the Californian giant to automotive startup Zoox.
Zoox has managed to attract several supply chain specialists in the last two years Applu. He has now acquired top engineers under his roof who are stillonethey used to work for Apple, and so it is very unlikely that it would Apple returned to developing its own self-driving vehicle. Server Bloomberg states that these are specifically 17 engineers who have experience in developing elements for both traditional and autonomous vehicles, such as braking and suspension systems.
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And what is Zoox working on?
Zoox is building its own system for autonomous driving of cars. Investors recently poured $290 million into the startup, so its current value is around $1 billion. More importantly, Zoox is working on an Uber-like service. It will essentially be Uber with autonomous cars driving around the centers of major cities. Zoox hopes to have its driverless taxis on the road by 2020 at the latest.
Reuters reports that Zoox has even hired Mark Rosekind from the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.ministration, which is intended to help the company safely develop, test and deploy autonomous vehicles.
Apple thereby saying goodbye to the self-driving electric car and focusing exclusively on the technology for autonomous driving cars, which it would then supply to car manufacturers.
