writes Bloomberg Monday on the basis of insiders. There would be hundreds of people in the project team are left by the changed ambition. A number of Apple employees have been fired, others get a new job within the company.
According to the insiders get the team until the end of next year to work on the autonomous rijsystemen, after which it is further decided about the future of Apple in the automotive industry.
The autoproject has, according to Bloomberg considerably suffered from internal strife. Managers are expected at the end of last year have an argument made about the direction of the project. Apple will refrain from comments in the article.
Few progress
The New York Times reported last month on the basis of anonymous sources that parts of the autoproject were discontinued because Apple’s plans for a private car wanted to reconsider. According to the newspaper, it went not well with the project: large investment would hardly have led to progress.
Last year, it was announced that Apple an electric car worked, though the company never officially confirmed. Reportedly, the company wanted to in 2019 to begin the shipping of the vehicles.
Techreuzen on the market
Apple is not the only technology company that is also located on the car. Google was one of the first developers with self-propelled cars on the public roads. The vehicles of the company have now more than 3.2 million miles on American roads.
in Addition to Google, for example, also Tesla is working on it. The cars of the company are already provided with a partly self-propelled function.
Earlier this year, Uber with taxi rides in self-propelled cars in the Us Pittsburgh. It is still intended that a so-called veiligheidschauffeur the car to keep an eye on.
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