The Apple car The project just lost another top executive tasked with fueling the automaker’s aspirations. Former Apple executive Christopher “CJ” Moore will leave the iPhone maker for Luminar technologyafter working at Apple for a remarkably short period of time: seven months.
This latest departure from Apple has to be one of the fastest to date, which says a lot due to the speed at which Apple executives have come and gone. . In fact, Bloomberg says that at this point, almost all leadership positions at Apple’s rumored car project have been vacant:
In the past two years, nearly the entire Apple Car management team has left. Earlier this month, Ian Goodfellow, another director of the Apple project, left for DeepMind of Alphabet Inc. At the same time, Apple has hired new managers from FordRivian and other players in the car industry.
And while some of these seats have been filled by former auto workers, the turmoil doesn’t bode well for Apple’s car project, known internally as the Project. Project Titan. Seriously, at this point, I feel like the entrance to any well appointed studio Apple is using (or isn’t) for its car project should have a revolving door. Continuous rotation, as personnel jump repeatedly between gaps quickly.
Moore is now the latest to leave the tech company. He joined Apple’s Project Titan in November 2021 to work on self-driving software for the Cupertino company, as reported by the company. The Verge. Moore worked for Tesla as a director and Autopilot software engineer first. A few months before leaving Tesla, Moore refuted Elon Musk’s claims about Autopilot’s self-driving capabilities, but was neither clear nor certain that this was why he left Tesla.
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It’s also unclear why Moore is leaving Apple for Luminar, where he’ll serve as global lead of software development for the Florida-based lidar company. My money is on Moore having stumbled into a secret room where Apple keeps its car prototype — rumored to be an autonomous car with no steering wheel — and the sight of it scared him away. I know I’m wrong, but humor me. Because if those rumors are true, then we should be calling Apple out for making a macOS desktop environment on wheels and then having the gall to say it’s a car.
