- Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) has made some managerial changes to its self-driving car operations, according to Bloomberg. These are the details.
Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) has made some managerial changes to its self-driving car operations, according to Bloomberg. Going forward, artificial intelligence executive John Giannandrea is going to oversee the work on the autonomous system — which could eventually be used in an “Apple Car” in the future.
The self-driving operations at Apple is known as Titan. And it is currently being run day-to-day by Doug Field. Bloomberg sources reported that Field’s team will be moved over to Giannandrea’s AI/ML group.
Field was previously reporting to Apple’s former senior vice president of hardware engineering Bob Mansfield. But now that Mansfield has fully retired from Apple, thus bringing more responsibility to Giannandrea.
Giannandrea originally joined Apple in 2018 as the VP of AI Strategy and Machine Learning before being promoted to Apple’s executive team as an SVP later that year. And Giannandrea also oversees Siri and other machine-learning technologies at the company.
There were rumors that Apple was going to start developing an autonomous electric car back in 2014. But then the project was scaled back in 2016. About a year later, Apple started testing its autonomous vehicle technology on public roads in 2017.
