According to information from Business Insider, Kevin Lynch, a vice president of technology at Apple, recently changed positions to join the team in charge of the “Titan” project, the code name for the Apple Car in Cupertino. Kevin Lynch is quite well known to the general public, having participated in numerous WWDCs in the past, notably to present innovations on the Apple Watch, the product for which he is directly responsible at Apple.
The Business Insider report explains that Lynch will "step aside" from Apple's health team in the coming weeks. It is Evan Doll, the current director of health software engineering at Apple, who should take his place and ensure the development of this sub-part of Apple. The report nevertheless indicates that Doll will report regularly to Lynch who will maintain a supervisory role in the development of future features.softwareethardwarede l’Apple Watch.
Lynch transferred back down range
Regarding the “Apple Car” projectthat Lynch should join in the coming days, Business Insider tells us that the latter is currently under the leadership of John Giannandrea, Apple's vice president in charge of machine learning and artificial intelligence. A logical choice when we know that the Apple Car should, according to the information we have, be an autonomous car, or partially autonomous like a Tesla.
With this change of section, Kevin Lynch should also be demoted in the Apple hierarchy. The trained engineer will likely return to his original position, leaving Giannandrea at the head of the overall Apple Car project. For the moment, no information has circulated as to whether Lynch would still be at the head of his own team, or if he would work under the tutelage of someone.
The Apple Car: a project full of mysteries
The Titan or Apple Car project is currently a real mystery within the Cupertino company. Although a lot of information reaches us regularly about it,difficult to know where Apple stands in the development of its autonomous car, as rumors can contradict each other.
Recently, Apple made a lot of talk about this project, entering into discussions with the Hyundai automobile group with the aim of developing the Apple Car on a large scale. Ultimately these discussions never came to fruition and the project remains in the hands of Apple, which according to many analysts of the brand, seeks to work witha heavyweight in the automotive sectorto finalize the development of his car.
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