Surely you have noticed, that the news related to the Apple Car never comes alone. For a few days we have been talking again almost daily about the launch plans for Apple's electric vehicle, baptized by some as Apple Car. The Titan project, under which the development of this vehicle is located, seems to have suffered some delay and not It will be released up to a year after the planned one, 2021, plus 7 months after dExpect the general project manager for different with Jony Ive, Apple has led this project to a person who only dedicates himself to special projects within the Bob Mansfield company.
But it is not the last important signing that the company has made, since according to the Bloomberg publication, Apple has just signed Dan Dodge, BlackBerry Software Lead to Work on Apple's Titan Project. Dodge came to Blackberry after the Canadian company bought QNX six years ago. QNX is a real-time operating system developed mainly for use in embedded systems, but it is also perfectly compatible with autonomous systems, such as the Apple Car.
According to the latest rumors, currently the Titan project is focusing on the autonomous driving of the device, and this is where Dodge can play a fundamental trump card for the development of the necessary software so that the vehicle can operate autonomously, just like Google's vehicle. What we do not know is whether Apple will finally have to ally with a manufacturer that allows to implement the autonomous driving function or if it will be able to do it without the help of third parties, although the latest rumors suggest that it intends to do it alone. which has rented an R&D office in Ontario, to begin the development of this autonomous system.