On May 26, according to foreign media reports, Benjamin Lyon, head of the sensor team, Soonho Ahn, director of battery development, Michael Schwekutsch, senior engineering director, and Eric Rogers, chief engineer of radar, etc. After jumping to other companies, Apple’s car project team is still losing executives, and a director of the car project has also left.
According to foreign media reports,The newest executive on Apple’s car project team is CJ Moorehe has joined automotive radar hardware and software technology company Luminar.
CJ Moore’s departure from Apple was announced on Wednesday by his new owner, Luminar.
Luminar announced on its official website on Wednesday the joining of several executives, including CJ Moore, who will lead the global software development team as Luminar’s vice president of software business.
Judging from foreign media reports, CJ Moore has not worked at Apple for a long time.He only joined Apple in November last yearhas been working at Apple for less than 7 months until he recently left.
Before joining Apple, CJMoore worked at Tesla as a director of Tesla’s autopilot software business unit,7 years at Tesla, far longer than Apple’s less than 7 months.
In addition to CJ Moore, vice president in charge of the software business, Luminar announced Wednesday that there are many other executives, including Taner Ozcelik, the founder of Nvidia’s automotive business, who will become executive vice president and will be fully responsible for Luminar’s product development, R&D, project management and semiconductor business units.
The news of Apple’s involvement in automobiles began to appear in large numbers in 2016, but the outside world believes that the Apple Car project, which is internally code-named “Titan”, has been launched as early as 2014. However, the mysterious Apple car project has experienced twists and turns in recent years, and the personnel have also undergone a lot of adjustments.
Following Bob Mansfield’s re-retirement in December 2020, the Apple Auto project team has been placed under the leadership of John Giannandrea, senior vice president of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
It is currently led by Kevin Lynch, who was previously the vice president of technology in charge of Apple Watch and health projects.He was transferred to the automotive project team in July last year.
Foreign media said in the report that Apple is committed to developing a self-driving electric car, which may not have a steering wheel or traditional driving tools, and is generally expected to be launched around 2025.
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