Apple Hires NASA Engineers For Project Titan, Self-Driving Car Venture

Apple has hired three engineers who previously worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an engineer who worked on the space agency's autonomous vehicle for exploration on Jupiter's moon. The engineers reportedly will work on the company's self-driving venture, said the Wall Street Journal, which obtained documents related to the company's autonmous vehicle plan. The NASA engineers, who will test Apple's self-driving car software, have previously worked on detection of 3D objects and motion planning algorithms. Read: Are Self-Driving Cars Safe? One In Four Cars On U.S. Roads In 2035 Will Be Self-Driven, Study Says One of the engineers Apple hired had previously worked with German company Bosch during the firm's efforts to make a self-driving car and making autonomous wheelchairs travel more smoothly.