Apple has hired a chief engineer from the electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc., according to a post by LinkedIn, as part of Apple's effort to build a team of automated driving experts.
Jamie Carlson's LinkedIn profile shows that he has left Tesla and moved to Apple. At least others six engineers with experience in technology development and self-driving systems have joined Apple, according to their LinkedIn profiles. Attempts to get to speak to these seven people were unsuccessful and Apple declined to comment..
According to sources they have said that Apple is developing a car and he studying the self-driving technologyBut it is unclear whether the iPhone maker has the idea for a vehicle that it could drive itself.
Since January, Apple has hired megan mcclain, an ancient Volkswagen engineer experienced in automatic driving, and Vinay palakkode, a graduate researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, an automated driving research center. In August, Apple hired Xianqiao Tong, an engineer who developed computer vision software for driver assistance systems at microchip maker Nvidia.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Apple hired Paul Furgale, a former Deputy Director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology earlier this year. And the number of contracts continues.
So-called advanced driver assistance systems, or ADAS, handle tasks such as keeping a vehicle in a lane or driving yourself. According to Carlson's LinkedIn profile, Carlson joined Apple in August in an unnamed position in a special projects group.
I feel that are getting ready for something fat Apple, although I think it will take time to show any results. But with the amount of money they have they can advance as much as they want. We can only wait.