Apple Inc. has reportedly hired a senior engineer from electric car maker Tesla Motors, Inc as reported by Reuters. The engineer's LinkedIn posting said that he is a part of Apple's team of experts in automated driving.
Jamie Carlson is that engineer and he join seven other people with experience in the development of self-driving technology and systems. These have fuelled the rumors of Apple working on a self-driving car. Carlson's work with Tesla is about the Autopilot self-driving car program.
According to the Reuters sources, Apple has started to develop a car and continues its research on self-driving technology. According to the same Reuters report, several attempts were done to reach all eight people but were unsuccessful and Apple has also declined to comment.
Carlson joins former Volkswagen engineer Megan McClain, Carnegie Mellon University researcher Vinay Palakkode, Nvidia Corporation's Xianqiao Tong, and former deputy director of the Autonomous Systems Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Paul Furgale. Last year, Apple have also hired former Bosch engineer Stefan Weber, former Ford engineer Sanjai Massey, and former Delphi research scientist Lech Szumilas.
The latest hire before Carlson was former Fiat Chrysler global quality leader Doug Betts. Betts has a lot of experience in the automobile industry, previously working for Nissan and Toyota.
McClain and Palakkode are experts on automated driving while Tong is an engineer who develops vision software for driving assistant systems. Weber has experience on video-based driver assistance systems, Massey on automated vehicles of Ford, and Szumalis specializes in computer vision and object detection.
One thing is for sure, The Cupertino-based Company is hiring a team with expertise on automobile and self-driving assistant systems.
In a report by the Press Examiner, Apple's self-driving vehicle project goes by the name "Project Titan", but no words or statement is released by the company. "Project Titan" is said to be lead by 16-year Apple veteran Steve Zadesky as reported by The VAR Guy.
Zadesky joined the company in 1999 to work on the iPod, and later the iPhone. Zadesky was rumoured to have hired about a thousand people on his team to work on the electric car which included the recruitment of the said employees above.
In other related auto news, Tesla signed a partnership with home rental service Airbnb to setup charging stations at different locations due to high demand by its customers in a report by NYCity Today. The Palo Alto, California-based company and Airbnb started to use the "Be free, Go far" campaign for their partnership.
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