Rumours regarding Apple working on a building its own autonomous cars have long been taking the rounds. The project secretly known as Project Titan has apparently taken a backseat as far as the company’s future plans regarding the development of the same is concerned.
According to report published by Bloomberg, Apple has drastically scaled back its automotive ambitions. Apple’s latest move has led to hundreds of job cuts and a new direction that does not include building its own car for now, the report suggested.
‘Hundreds of members of the car team, which comprises about 1,000 people, have been reassigned, let go, or have left of their own volition in recent months, the people said, asking not to be identified because the moves aren’t public,’ Bloomberg posted.
Apple initially kickstarted its Project Titan back in 2014 and intended on entering the auto industry with its innovation of advanced fleets of vehicles. ‘The car is the ultimate mobile device, isn’t it?’ Apple’s COO Jeff Williams had said in 2015.
The company has neither acknowledged nor denied its secret car project and the rumours surrounding it. However, according to reports the company will decide the future plans of its self-driving project called Project Titan by late 2017.
