Apple vs Tesla on autonomous driving!
Fight to the death between EV big cars, both current and future, on autonomous driving, which also leads to a hunt for competition experts, even at the cost of reaching a real war.
Apple hired former Tesla Autopilot software director Christopher Moore for its self-driving vehicle team. An investment to steal the competitor's expert, which already uses a form of autonomous driving.
Moore will report to Stuart Bowers, another former Tesla employee, according to reports on Friday . Basically Apple is using tesla technicians.
In the past, there have been many rumors about Apple's willingness to give a product to third parties or produce its own car, but now it seems that the company's “Project Titan” self-driving vehicle project is well underway.
The project suffered a setback earlier this year when its former leader, Doug Field, left Apple for Ford. Coaches are now bought and sold like soccer players.
Moore was known at Tesla for often refuting CEO Elon Musk's claims about Tesla's autopilot performance. For example, he once told the California Department of Motor Vehicles that Elon Musk's plans to achieve level 5 autonomy (ie, fully autonomous driving without human intervention) within a couple of years were "unrealistic."
Moore also indicated that Musk's claims about autonomous driving did not "match the engineering reality."
We have reported extensively on potential partners for Apple's vehicle project.
In February, we wrote that an alleged agreement between Hyundai and Apple to work together on an autonomous electric car had failed. So there is talk of an agreement with the other Korean giant Kia.
At the time, Kia reportedly "approached potential partners for a plan to assemble Apple Inc.'s long-awaited electric car in Georgia," according to Dow Jones.
The partnership between the two companies could involve a "multi-billion dollar investment," although the deal has not yet been finalized, we reported. Since then, few details have surfaced about potential partners for Apple. We only know that the car will be innovative from the battery point of view, with a single-cell solution that will make the batteries light and unobtrusive.
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