About four years ago, Apple decided that it would go into the automotive business, with something that was referred to within the company as ‘Project Titan.’ At its peak, the Titan project commanded the employ of more than 1,000 staffers. However, the automotive project has been ‘realigned’ multiple times since then, resulting in lowered employee morale, which then saw a large departure of engineers from the project.
After the tech company was rejected by carmakers like BMW and Mercedes-Benz due to their insistence that the design & data produced should be handled by Apple, the company found a partner in Volkswagen, who the The New York Times claims “jumped at the chance to work with Apple.” Evidently VW thought this was just the sort of good-news project it needed to put the 2015 Dieselgate saga further behind them.
Dubbed the ‘Jetstream’ project, the new Apple-VW product will be based off the Transporter T6. Apple intends to transform them into electric, driverless shuttles to move employees between their two campuses in California.
The driverless shuttle wants will retain the frame, wheels, and chassis of the Transporter T6, while everything else will be… well, Apple. Expect a minimalist interior and exterior, and technology that we’ve all seen before but will blow Apple fanboys out of their mum’s basement. Oh, and they’ll probably remove something critical and then claim it’s revolutionary. Might be the windscreen. Or doors.
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