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Apple layoffs Project Titan self-driving car Tech

Apple confirms self-driving car layoffs, says it mostly fired engineers

sudshr47 February 28, 2019

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Apple has laid off 190 employees working on the company’s self-driving car project, codenamed Project Titan. The layoffs were first reported on in January, but now we know that most of the affected employees are engineers. 

Additional details about the dismissals were unearthed in Apple’s letter to the California Employment Development Department, first reported on by the San Francisco Chronicle. 

According to the letter, Apple laid off 38 engineering program managers, 33 hardware engineers, 31 product design engineers and 22 software engineers, taking effect on April 16.  Read more…

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Even Apple’s self-driving car safety report is super secretive

sudshr47 February 22, 2019

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Apple’s autonomous car program is as secretive as ever. 

Compare the seven-page safety report Apple submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration this week to the 43-page color explosion from Waymo, the self-driving car startup from Google parent company Alphabet. 

Apple's first page.

Apple’s first page.

Image: apple / nhtsa / screengrab

Waymo's first page.

Waymo’s first page.

Image: Waymo

Both talk about each companies’ safety practices and guiding principles when it comes to self-driving vehicles, but only one (guess which one) keeps it brief and vague. Other companies like Ford, GM’s Cruise, and Nuro also share additional details and include charts, vehicle pictures, and images of — wait for it — people.  Read more…

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