Philip Houska Apple had (and no doubt still has) big ambitions to break into the automotive market, but the top-secret "Project Titan" now appears to be in trouble. The bosses of Apple were not satisfied during the last review of the development of the project, and the entire team, or hiring for it, was apparently suspended.
According to information, he was supposed to express his dissatisfaction during a discussion with the management of the "automotive team". Apple Insider express Apple's chief designer Jony Ive himself. At the same time, more than a thousand people work in the company (inside and outside the Cupertino campus) on the so-called "Project Titan". Apple's hiring was even supposed to be so aggressive that they pulled several key engineers from Tesla, causing major problems for Elon Musk's pioneering company. Although Musk himself such information earlier denied.
The news regarding Team Titan's suspension came just days after Steve Zadesky announced his departure from Apple, who was supposed to be in charge of the entire automotive project. He is said to be leaving for personal reasons. Even this departure may play a role in the current suspension of the project, as Zadesky was undoubtedly an important figure.
According to Apple Insider the Californian company has already run into a number of problems during development, so the plans regarding the completion of the electric car are still moving, now it is said to be 2019 at the earliest, but these are just estimates for now. In the meantime, Apple should also have contacted BMW, for example, because it is interested in the i3 model, which it would like to acquire from BMW as a development platform. A German car company that is relatively successful in the field of electric cars, but is not yet very inclined to such cooperation.
The idea of the scribble that he drew that illustration is pretty ridiculous - will the car just go straight or how will the wheels turn in those narrow fenders? :-))))
Those "scribbles", however, are also sketches on which the designer clarifies the rough concept of the car. They are not the plans according to which the car will be manufactured.
I agree...the author is just clarifying here that an Apple car will not be able to turn.
I know what a designer does, the one who painted this, but he is not a designer. Design is not about how it could look beautifully cool and you sketch the concept, design is also about how the given thing will be used. So the scribbler didn't think about the fact that it should also drive... The art of industrial design is not something anyone can do right away, and this doodle is a beautiful example of that :-)
The narrow mudguard immediately expands next to the wheel, the wheel turns approx. 45°, we don't know the tire shape? So where is the problem.
The image was not actually released by anyone from Apple, but by someone who likes to paint…
for the interest of Mr. Designer
It's an Apple car, so everything will work differently than the competition. That is, this car turns in such a way that it moves the planet.
Gentlemen, you are thinking too conventionally. Are they even wheels? What if it floats above the ground ;-) or what if it turns in a completely different way, for example with a different rotation speed of independent wheels? And besides, it's really just an idea sketch, I wouldn't look for anything more in it than just basic volumes and proportions.
Title: the project has been suspended
Article: the entire team has been suspended (uh?)
The original you are based on: hiring new people for the project has been suspended
So the project is still running, only the aggressive hiring of new people (or all the hiring of new people, not just the aggressive :)) has been suspended (allegedly).
You can't ask a journalistic cesspool to at least properly translate articles written by someone else... A lot of work, thinking, effort and shit for it.
I see it's the same design expert.
That headline is an absolute disgrace. Don't want to fix it? "Hiring freeze" is not a project suspension!!! (as a colleague already writes below)