The information that comes directly from the well-known medium CNBC, explains that a spokesperson for the Cupertino company would have confirmed these more than 200 employees of the so-called "project Titan" or project Titan, have been withdrawn from the project to move to other positions in other projects.
This does not mean that Apple has put aside this work to develop the autonomous system for cars, which indicates that the engineer who arrived from Tesla a few months ago Doug Field, would be carrying out a restructuring together with Bob Mansfield of the team.
Since 2014 working on this Titan project
In Cupertino they have been involved in this project since 2014 and the truth is that when it seemed that the company was involved in creating its own electric car, everything seemed somewhat surreal. The truth is that a couple of years later it was officially announced that they were working on improving the software for autonomous cars and over the years they continue to add hours to the project. The news that the CNBC it is not a step back, just one more step to improve this software.
Tim Cook himself He already said on several occasions that they were focusing with a powerful team on improving self-driving cars:
We are focusing on autonomous systems for vehicles. This is a technology that we see as very important in our plans and we continue to work on it to improve this and all of Ai's projects.
Sure that the reduction of the team means that specific pieces are incorporated into the team in the not too distant future, there is not much data on the number of people working on the development of Project Titan, but it sure is not a small number of people.
