Prominent ex-Tesla self-driving car exec leaves Apple for greener pastures

Enlarge / A building at Apple Park, the company's Cupertino, California, HQ. (credit: Apple)

Apple has reportedly been working on self-driving car technology since 2014, but it has faced a series of prominent employee departures over the past year. As reported Wednesday by Bloomberg, the latest is CJ Moore, who had only just joined the company last August.

Before joining Apple, Moore was Tesla's director of autopilot, where he worked on self-driving cars even as he contradicted Tesla CEO Elon Musk's bold timeline for the project when speaking with California regulators. It's unclear exactly what Moore's work has been at Apple since joining the company.

In any case, he's now moving to lidar company Luminar Technologies, which has been aggressively hiring prominent directors and executives from tech and automobile giants. At Luminar, Moore will lead the global software development for lidar-based features to ensure passengers' safety in autonomous vehicles.

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