Apple hires veteran Lamborghini executive to work on 'Apple Car' team
Apple has hired a former Lamborghini executive to help lead the design of its rumored "Apple Car," signaling that the company is still moving ahead with the project.
Apple Car concept
The iPhone maker has hired Luigi Taraborrelli, a 20-year veteran of Lamborghini who oversaw chassis and vehicle dynamics at the carmaker, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.
During his tenure at Lamborghini, Taraborrelli worked on models such as the Urus, Huracan, and Aventador, as well as the Huracan Sterrato and the Asterion concept car.
Along with his work on chassis development, Taraborrelli also worked in ares such as handling, suspensions, steering, brakes, and rims.
Some form of the "Apple Car" has reportedly been in the works for years under the codename Project Titan. However, Apple's vehicular team has seen a number of setbacks, departures, and road bumps along the way. Most recently, the team lost an automotive engineer just six months after his hire.
The "Apple Car" has also evolved in scope. Although initially Apple wanted to produce a full-scale vehicle, it eventually switched gears to focus on underlying autonomous systems. Most recently, it appears to have pivoted back toward creating an actual production car.
According to the latest information, the "Apple Car" is said to be a fully electric and driverless vehicle. Recent concepts suggest that the car could lack a steering wheel and would instead have four inward-facing seats.
Read on AppleInsider
Apple Car concept
The iPhone maker has hired Luigi Taraborrelli, a 20-year veteran of Lamborghini who oversaw chassis and vehicle dynamics at the carmaker, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.
During his tenure at Lamborghini, Taraborrelli worked on models such as the Urus, Huracan, and Aventador, as well as the Huracan Sterrato and the Asterion concept car.
Along with his work on chassis development, Taraborrelli also worked in ares such as handling, suspensions, steering, brakes, and rims.
Some form of the "Apple Car" has reportedly been in the works for years under the codename Project Titan. However, Apple's vehicular team has seen a number of setbacks, departures, and road bumps along the way. Most recently, the team lost an automotive engineer just six months after his hire.
The "Apple Car" has also evolved in scope. Although initially Apple wanted to produce a full-scale vehicle, it eventually switched gears to focus on underlying autonomous systems. Most recently, it appears to have pivoted back toward creating an actual production car.
According to the latest information, the "Apple Car" is said to be a fully electric and driverless vehicle. Recent concepts suggest that the car could lack a steering wheel and would instead have four inward-facing seats.
Read on AppleInsider
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(let’s have compassion with the others who entered this graveyard - never to be heard from anymore…)
Daaaaaaaang, sucka!
it’s on now!
Apple car delivery date? year 2150.
But this Apple Car talk has been going on and on and on and on, and there's no hard evidence to say 100% the Apple will ever release a car that has their brand on it. To be honest, I think I will be shocked to my core if a truly "Apple" branded car ever does come out. A car is so out in left field compared to what the company does now, it just doesn't make any sense to me. It never has. And while a company needs to be diverse, this is a car we're talking about, not a computer gizmo or service, which is their specialty. In fact, I can conceive of Apple releasing an Apple branded android before a car, since an Android would have more to do with the existing business model than a car.
Seriously.
no one wants their life controlled by the government or big tech. Those two exist to make life better forthepeople. So if apple has a driverless taxi, that’s one thing. But a personal vehicle… people are going to want to drive it themselves and bring control of where they go and how they get there.
If you think shifting to EVs only shift the pollution elsewhere, you must have no confidence in solar, wind, hydro, or other clean energy and I assume you're opposed to nuclear energy as well.
https://www.teslarati.com/new-ucs-study-evs-cleaner-than-ice/