Apple’s self-driving car project, Project Titan, is one of the biggest open secrets in the tech industry. Although the company has yet to release a product related to self-driving cars, CEO Tim Cook said in a Bloomberg interview in 2017 that it’s the “mother of all AI projects.”
However, plenty of other rivals are far ahead of Apple in self-driving technology, most notably Waymo, the Alphabet company that spun out of Google’s self-driving car project. Waymo has been working on self-driving cars for the better part of a decade, and is already testing an automated ride-hailing service in Phoenix.
Last week, new data from the California Department of Motor Vehicles showed Apple’s self-driving cars ranked the worst in disengagements, or instances when a human driver needs to take over from the automated system.
And last month, Apple removed 200 employees from it’s self-driving car division, CNBC first reported. Some of those employees were reassigned to Apple’s AI division. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that former Tesla engineering boss Doug Field, who manages Project Titan, decided to make the cuts. The move signaled that Apple could be looking to focus more broadly on AI, not just through projects like self-driving cars.
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