Apple hires top Tesla exec who apparently ‘disagreed’ with CEO Elon Musk

Apple has reportedly hired another top Tesla executive. According to a report in Bloomberg News, the company has hired Christopher ‘CJ’ Moore who’s been the director for Tesla’s Autopilot Software since 2019. Apple is widely speculated to be working on self-driving car. The project is codenamed Project Titan.
According to his LinkedIn page, Moore has been with Tesla for 7 years and 5 months. He joined Tesla in 2014 as senior integration engineer. Incidentally, Moore is made media headlines earlier this year for a comment regarding the current state of Full Self-Driving (FSD) where he reportedly said that Tesla CEO Elon Musk exaggerated the automaker’s full self-driving timeline. During a DMV conference call, he said that Musk’s statements that Level 5 automated driving is coming soon didn’t “match engineering reality.”
As per a report in driveteslacanada.ca, in March Tesla had a meeting with Miguel Acosta of the Autonomous Vehicles Branch of the California DMV to discuss the expansion of the FSD beta program to more testers.