January 24 news, according to foreign media reports, global battery development director Soonho Ahn jumped to Volkswagen, radar chief engineer Eric Rogers joined the flying taxi startup Joby Aviation, apple car project team after important members are still lost.
According to foreign media reports, the latest executive of Apple's auto project team is Joe Bass, a project manager for autonomous driving systems engineering, who revised his information on the LinkedIn in January to show that he has left Apple to start a new position.
Like two key executives on the chip team who left to join Intel and Microsoft, Joe Bass left Apple for a big company, joining Meta, which was renamed by Facebook and is known as one of the five major U.S. tech giants.
According to foreign media reports, after joining Meta, Joe Bass served as the director of technology project management, responsible for mixed reality technology.
Foreign media also mentioned in the report that since January 2015, Joe Bass has been the engineering project manager of Apple's autonomous driving system, that is, shortly after the start of Apple's car project, he is the engineering project manager of this team. News of Apple's car development came in large numbers in 2016, but it is widely believed that Apple launched a car project in 2014.
It is worth noting that in June 2017, Apple CEO Cook admitted in an interview that they focused on autonomous driving systems, and the newly departed Joe Bass, who served as an engineering project manager for autonomous driving systems for a long time during his time at Apple, was engaged in the autonomous driving system that Cook had previously acknowledged.
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