Apple Dismisses over 200 Employees from Project Titan, Its Autonomous Vehicle Group

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Apple’s plans for a self-driving car may be either dead, or severely downgraded: CNBC was told the company “cut over 200 employees from Project Titan, its stealthy autonomous vehicle initiative.” Those who weren’t laid off have been moved to “other parts of the company, where they will support machine learning and other initiatives, across all of Apple.” Comments by Tim Cook suggest the priority is now healthcare technologies.

In August, Apple enlisted a Tesla engineering vice president and Apple veteran, Doug Field, to lead the Titan team alongside Bob Mansfield. This week's dismissals from the group were seen internally as anticipated restructuring under the relatively new leadership. Other employees who were impacted by the restructuring of Project Titan are staying at Apple, but moving to different parts of the company.
 
Well, if their tabs and laptops are pre-bent as a feature, I hate to see what feature the car would have!?
Free cremation when the batteries decide to meltdown?
 
New products: Something apple has been without for too long. It's as if they have no vision other than refreshing decade old tech innovations.
 
Dear Apple: You're going to have a bad time trying to make healthcare devices because they have to be function over form.
 
they could figure out a way to get rid of wheels for their own proprietary design ?
 
TBH i see this as a sensible move by Apple. Don't think it's because they can't compete, it's more likely they did a deep dive and decided to place money on sure fire bet firmly placed in the real world. There will always be a growing need for healthcare.
 
TBH i see this as a sensible move by Apple. Don't think it's because they can't compete, it's more likely they did a deep dive and decided to place money on sure fire bet firmly placed in the real world. There will always be a growing need for healthcare.
Nothing sure fire anywhere, but health care? I think even less so.
 
Comments by Tim Cook suggest the priority is now healthcare technologies.


i *could* see them trying to replace the current paper dr charts with ipads.

but outside of that, im not sure what they could do.
 
i *could* see them trying to replace the current paper dr charts with ipads.

but outside of that, im not sure what they could do.
And there's more experienced companies there already... Healthcare is a stiff learning curve as well as highly regulated... Being able to sink money in it doesn't guarantee a thing either. Im sure these morons think they can have tons of solutions with feeding data and 'machine learning' some shit, suuuure.
 
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