Project Titan, the name of the project within which Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is developing an autonomous electric car, advancing "with rapid steps" at the moment, Apple constantly hiring new people capable of fulfilling its goals.
Among them is a former engineer Tesla called Jamie Carlson, he worked in the past within the team that develops the program Autopilot intended to bring to the market an autonomous car under the brand of the American company, but now he will use his expertise for the car of those from Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),.
Megan McClain, a former employee Volkswagen who was working on an autonomous car produced by the Germans and Vinay Palakkode of Carnegie Mellon University are now part of the special projects team within Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, the software that will drive the Apple car being their main focus.
Apart from them, the Apple company also hired Xianqiao Tong from Nvidia for the project, Paul Frugale from the Federal Institute for Technology in Switzerland, during the summer the vice president of the division for testing the quality of Fiat Chrysler cars, becoming an employee of Apple.
Sources have said that Apple is developing a car and studying self-driving technology, but it is unclear if the iPhone maker is designing a vehicle that could drive itself. Other Apple hires since September 2014 with similar experience have worked at automakers BMW AG, Volkswagen and Ford Motor Co, automotive suppliers Delphi Automotive, Robert Bosch GmbH and TRW.
The Titan project was approved by Tim Cook more than a year ago and hundreds of people are working to achieve its goal, Apple hiring experts from BMW, Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Ford and Fiat Chrysler in the last months.
The project is at such an advanced stage that Apple is ready to test the autonomous electric car in public, but it remains to be seen how long it will be until the product is ready for an official presentation.
