Tim Cook had made the announcement in 2017 about Apple’s experiments with self-driving vehicles, but in a couple of years the company had laid off 190 engineers from the project.
In spite of 2020 being a middling year for consumer gadgets, Apple emerged with a slew of launches ranging from the pricey iPhone 12 to new MacBooks and iPads. Now, as the year draws to a close, the company is setting even bigger expectations for the year ahead, a year when Apple Cars could arrive. Of course, as is often the case with Tim Cook’s plans, nothing concrete has emerged though news reports claim that these self-driving cars could actually start rolling out in the near future. Some say that the first car may be out by 2024 while others claim that it may launch next year. Both reports are based on information provided by component manufacturers. For those of you who dismissed the self-driving cars as science fiction, Tesla already has a few on the roads and could soon have its biggest competitor as well. Apple had shared their automobile dreams in 2017 when Tim Cook confirmed reports of the company working on some self-driving cars. However, post these announcements, the only news that one heard wasn’t exactly favourable to the company’s lofty goals. Reports of Apple letting go of 190 people working on the project came early in 2019. Thereafter, only silence prevailed over their ambitious plans codenamed “Project Titan”.
