News of the delay comes via The Information in an article about how the three Sumner brothers are helping the company build a vehicle.
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The project has been said to be a team of roughly 600 people.
Computing power issues and a recent change in leadership are to blame for the delay.
About the computing power issue leading to the delay in the shipping date of Apple’s vehicle, the interviewed Apple employees told The Information that the company has efforts underway to purchase the in-house servers for capturing the massive amounts of data which will be produced by the “Project Titan” cars or will be required for operating the cars. While Tesla chose Amazon Web Services to handle that, Apple’s secretive nature means they want to do this in-house. His resignation, which he cited was due to personal reason, has disrupted the project as new leadership is being put in place.
One thing the article does not answer are questions surrounding the auto and what exactly Apple’s aim is in bringing it to market. The Information has reported that the introduction target for the Apple Car has now moved back one year from the earlier 2020 to 2021.
Regulatory requirements, not to mention the need for long periods of testing – much of it in public – and the shaky current legal status of semi-autonomous and driver assistance technology all threaten to shine a spotlight on Apple’s traditionally clandestine development process.
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Whatever Apple decides to do, its vehicle will enter a market with strong competitors e.g Tesla.
