Apple Car, the team loses another piece: former Tesla Christopher Moore quits after less than a year
Christopher Moore, a veteran of the automotive industry, has resigned from Apple to join the ranks of Luminar Technologies. He had been Tesla’s manager.
Apple ‘s ambitious project to produce a self-driving electric car – Project Titan – has once again lost an important piece. He leaves Christopher “CJ” Moore , a veteran of the automotive industry who has now joined the ranks of Luminar Technologies.
Luminar Technologies is an Orlando-based company. It deals with hardware and software for autonomous and assisted driving: from LiDAR sensors to computer vision technologies.
Christopher Moore only joined Apple in August of last year, but evidently in less than a year he has seen enough to make the decision to give the bitten apple well served and go elsewhere. Before joining Apple, Moore had been in charge of Tesla’s ‘Autopilot’ program . In short, he is one of the leading experts in semi-autonomous driving systems in the world.
Elon Musk in the past had mocked Apple, claiming that it was “the company where those who do not keep up with Tesla’s pace go to work”.
Over the past two years, virtually the entire management of Apple’s automotive division has been replaced. In early May, Ian Goodfellow fired from Apple to go to work for DeepMind, Google’s machine learning division. Around the same time, Apple hired some former Ford and Rivian executives.
Luminar has been listed on the stock exchange since 2020 and in the meantime has entered into important collaboration agreements with Mercedes-Benz, Volvo and SAIC Motor Corp.
