Apple fired many engineers in the self-driving car project

Recently, Apple said it decided to fire 190 employees working on the company's self-driving car project, code-named Project Titan. The dismissal decisions were first reported in January, but the recent leaked information from Apple indicates that all 190 people are engineers.

Details about the dismissal were cited by the San Francisco Chronicle in Apple's letter to the California Employment Development Department.

According to the letter in the letter, the American giant decided to resign 38 managers responsible for technical programs, 33 hardware engineers, 31 product design engineers and 22 technicians. software professor. The decision will take effect from April 16 next.

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This news came after a quarter of business thought to be bad for Apple when sales from the company's iPhone sales fell by 15% over the same period last year.

However, according to observers, the dismissal of Project Titan engineers will probably not only aim to "reduce payroll" to save budget. In fact, according to many reports made over the years, Apple's self-driving car project has been put up, weighed and debated countless times. Therefore, regardless of Apple's long-term plan for this project, this latest layoff is likely to be a bad sign, related to the effectiveness and feasibility of Project Titan. .

Apple also sent a report on safety issues to self-driving cars to the US National Traffic Safety Administration a week ago, however, this report is relatively vague and brief, not yet possible. confirms that Apple's project is going well.

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Back in August 2018, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (who is notorious for making highly accurate predictions about Apple's plans) said Apple is still working very seriously. In the plan to develop a self-driving car, it can be launched between 2023 and 2025.

Let's wait and see whether Project Titan can bring success to Apple Disability!