Apple’s secretive car project loses yet another top executive
by Andrew J. Hawkins from The Verge - All Posts on (#5ZMSZ)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Christopher CJ" Moore, the former Tesla Autopilot software engineer who left to join Apple's secretive car project last year, has left Apple to join Luminar, an Orlando, Florida-based lidar company, as its new head of software, the company announced. Moore only lasted seven months at Apple.
Moore is among a group of top executives from other leading companies to join Luminar, which makes the laser sensors that help autonomous vehicles see" their surrounding environment. But his departure from Apple is yet another indication of the tech giant's struggles to retain talent for its befuddled efforts to make an autonomous electric car - known as Project Titan.
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