Apple hires former Tesla Autopilot software director for its car project

Apple has been trying to rebuild the team for its car project after several top executive left it earlier this year. The tech major has now managed to rope in Christopher “CJ” Moore to look at the software side of the project.

Apple has hired yet another top Tesla executive for its car project, which has been majorly kept under wraps till now. Christopher “CJ” Moore, who acted as the Director of Tesla's Autopilot division, has now joined the Cupertino-based technology major and will be working on the software end of the project.

The hiring has been confirmed in a new report by Bloomberg. As per the publication, Moore will report to Stuart Bowers, another former Tesla executive who joined Apple at the end of 2020. The hiring is the latest update on Apple's car project, not much of which has ever been made public by the company.