Apple Scales Back Its Ambitious for a Self-Driving Car

by **bdahm** Fri Aug 25, 2017 2:11 pm

As new employees were brought into Apple’s secret effort to create a self-driving car a few years ago, managers told them that they were working on the company’s next big thing: A product that would take on Detroit and disrupt the automobile industry.

These days, Apple’s automotive ambitions are more modest. The company has put off any notion of an Apple-branded autonomous vehicle and is instead working on the underlying technology that allows a car to drive itself. Timothy D. Cook, the company’s chief executive, said in an interview with Bloomberg in June that Apple is “focusing on autonomous systems.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/technology/apple-self-driving-car.html

-Bill