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Title: Apple’s latest car hire could steer the company toward autonomous driving Post by: HCK on August 01, 2016, 04:05:16 pm Apple’s latest car hire could steer the company toward autonomous driving
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Apple’s Bob Mansfield, most famous for his work on the iMac, iPad, MacBook Air, and special projects like the Apple Watch, was recently put in charge of the company’s top secret car project (http://www.macworld.com/article/3099674/hardware/report-apple-special-projects-guru-bob-mansfield-takes-the-wheel-on-apple-car.html). His first order of business appears to be hiring an operating system expert: former BlackBerry developer Dan Dodge.</p><p> According to Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/apple-taps-blackberry-talent-as-car-project-takes-software-turn), Mansfield tapped Dodge to work on autonomous driving software for Apple’s car division, code-named Project Titan, signaling that the company is pivoting from building its own car to making the tech that will power the next generation of cars. Or, more likely, Apple is covering all of its bases and seeing whether hardware, software, or a combination of both will succeed.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3101867/hardware/apples-latest-car-hire-could-steer-the-company-toward-autonomous-driving.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Apple’s latest car hire could steer the company toward autonomous driving (http://www.macworld.com/article/3101867/hardware/apples-latest-car-hire-could-steer-the-company-toward-autonomous-driving.html#tk.rss_all) |