Apple lured another engineer from Tesla

Edition MacRumors drew attention to a curious trend : Apple hires in company engineers who one way or another related to the automotive industry. So recently Tesla left Hel Okers (Hal Ockerse), worked at Elon Musk since July last year, and is engaged in advanced driver assistance systems (advanced driver assistance system (ADAS), such as engine control units, cameras, radars and other sensors. The Hel going to do in a new place of work is that it is not clear - in his profile on LinkedIn simply stated «Engineering Team - Software at Apple».

The transition of an engineer at Apple would not be surprising if the journalists did not notice that professionals like him in the company becomes many. Recently Apple employee became Subhagato Dutta (Subhagato Dutta), formerly of the Texas Instrument. His responsibility was to develop algorithms, visualization, and the previously Dutta doing research in the field of robotized vehicles. Among his colleagues he appeared recently hired Yakshu Madaan (Yakshu Madaan), a former operations manager of Tata Motors, which is the biggest Indian automaker. In addition, since February of this year, Apple has become the new place of work for former engineer Tesla, Ford, General Motors, Crysler. At least two of the hired professionals engaged in one or another side of the development of robotic vehicles.

It's interesting that in February there were first rumors respect to a secret project from Apple entitled Project Titan . As reported by the media, we are talking about creating a car Apple's own original design, which is likely to be an autonomous robotic electric cars. Stage of development of the project still unknown, but is furnished with all the Apple intrinsic measure of privacy. So Guardian пишет that the team of engineers working on the project of the former naval base near San Francisco, has been transformed into a secret testing ground for robotic vehicles.

However, there is another point of view that is unlikely Apple will be involved in setting up the car, but rather we are talking only about working on some of the operating system designed for installation in cars from other manufacturers. However, this is at odds with the accepted practice, Apple regarding the release of their products and the majority of the authors want Apple to live up to his reputation of the company, the ability to surprise, and released to the market something truly revolutionary.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/261306/