Initially, little was known about Project Titan. The development and construction of entire cars was considered Apple's original goal.
This is said to have changed in the course of the research and the focus was placed on software development for autonomous driving. This was then to be incorporated into models from other manufacturers. The project itself was first documented in 2015. Now Apple has announced a restructuring in the autonomous driving department. According to this, around 200 employees have been transferred within the company.
"huge opportunity"
However, Project Titan remains a "huge opportunity," an Apple spokesperson told CNBC. Autonomous systems are exciting and will continue to be researched with a smaller but incredibly talented team. For 2019, the focus of the remaining group will be narrowed to certain areas, which is why some of the employees have been transferred to other departments such as machine learning. There was no comment on whether there were any layoffs.
weakness for Tesla employees
Since the end of last year, Tesla employees have been moving to Apple in droves. These were mainly software developers and specialists from the supplier division. In mid-December it was announced that Andrew Kim - an expert in design for the interior of vehicles - had also moved to Apple. He worked on the Models 3, S, X, Y and Roadster V2. He also worked in design at Microsoft.
