Jan 08, 2021 12:03:00

Apple's self-driving car development team has dozens of former Tesla employees

Apple's self-driving car development status, with reports that Apple will

start producing self-driving cars by 2024, and it was revealed that Elon Musk had tried to sell Tesla to Apple in the past. Attention is focused on. Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports a breakdown of Apple's self-driving car development team members.

Apple's Self-Driving Electric Car Is at Least Half a Decade Away --Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-07/apple-s-aapl-tesla-tsla-killer-won-t-ship-for-at-least-half-a-decade

Below is a list of the key members of Apple's self-driving car development team published by Bloomberg. In 2019, we hired Michael Schwekutsch, Tesla's Vice President of Drive Systems, and in 2020, we hired Jonathan Shiv, a vehicle engineer at Tesla and Waymo . In addition, in late 2020, former Tesla Vice President Stuart Bowers, who led Tesla's self-driving technology team until 2019, will join the self-driving car development team.

In addition to former Tesla executives, Apple employs dozens of former Tesla employees, and at the time of writing the article, a total of hundreds of engineers belong to the self-driving car development team. In addition, Apple employs so many former Tesla employees that Tesla CEO Elon Musk calls Apple ' Tesla's graveyard .'

In addition, according to job listings , Apple is looking for people who can design 'mass-produced LED lighting systems.' From this, it can be seen that Apple is developing for mass production of self-driving cars, Bloomberg writes.

Apple's development of self-driving cars seems to be proceeding smoothly because it has a large number of human resources, but the spread of the new coronavirus has forced many of the development teams to work at home. , There is a delay in development. 'Apple will start producing self-driving cars at least five years away,' Bloomberg wrote.