Connected Car
There’s been a revolving door of executives at Apple tied to the company’s autonomous car project. Apple is constantly trying to define its next big product, and autonomous vehicle tech has been in the skunkworks in Cupertino since 2014 . Apple has hundreds of engineers working on self-driving tech as well as a group working on an actual vehicle, per Bloomberg. Departures from the top of the car group include Dave Scott who was the lead on robotics, Jaime Waydo who led autonomous car safety and regulation, and Benjamin Lyon, the proponent of the Apple Car project who left in February. Apple also ramped up its Apple Maps image collection around the US for accurate and updated mapping it can use for autonomous driving applications.