INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
If you&re looking for hints that Apple might deliver on its long-rumored plan to develop its own car, a significant one landed this week
after it emerged that Doug Field — Apple former VP of Mac hardware engineering — has rejoined from the company after a spell with
Tesla.
John Gruber at Daring Fireball broke the news of Field returning to Apple following five years at Tesla where he oversaw the
production of the Model 3.
Apple confirmed in a statement to TechCrunch that it has rehired Field, but it declined to give information about
Gruber reports, however, that Field will link up with Bob Mansfield, the former colleague he worked with on theMac hardware business
Mansfield just so happens to be the person who is heading up Apple ‘Project Titan& car project, having been tempted back and out of
retirement, so there a lot to dig into.
There been plenty of speculation about the secretive Project Titan, most notably it was reported in
2016 that Apple had abandoned plans to develop a car.Instead, it was said to be focused on autonomous driving technology
While the project remains pretty opaque and tough to gauge, the hiring of the man who oversaw Tesla production — right after Apple poached
a Waymo self-driving engineer —is a pretty interesting clue that suggests Apple might be reviving plans to develop a car once
again.
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