Apple Hiring Automotive Experts

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 13, 2015 @01:12PM from the cars-with-just-one-button dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A report at the Financial Times (paywalled) says Apple is on an aggressive hiring push to pick up automotive experts. Recent rumors suggest Apple is putting together a transportation research lab, and nobody outside the company is quite sure why. It's unlikely they's want to build an entire car themselves, but quite possible they see a big space for Apple technology within motor vehicles, much as Google seems to. They already have CarPlay, and it will doubtless grow, but we still don't have anything approaching a dominant platform for car software. Whatever they're working on, it looks like the competition for more robust computer technology in cars is heating up.

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Re:Tim Cook, Just buy Telsa by Anonymous Coward · 2015-02-13 15:54 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Yes Apple please buy Tesla, because it'll make a bunch of whiney middle class geeks cry. Would be great to finally stop having gadget/geek blogs stop covering 'cars' (aka Tesla) as they're so woefully misguided.