Ford has hired away Apple’s car chief, Doug Field, to become its chief advanced technology and embedded systems officer. The departure is the latest shake-up for Apple’s car division, which has undergone numerous shifts over the past several years. Despite starting the project in 2014, work on an autonomous electric vehicle is still in an early stage, Bloomberg reported in January. Apple’s car efforts were reportedly moved under the purview of John Giannandrea, the company’s SVP of machine learning and AI, in December. Ford has also said that Google’s Android will power infotainment systems in “millions” of its cars starting in 2023.

Source: The Nation September 07, 2021 19:30 UTC