Self-driving sensor firm Aeva Technologies adds two Apple veterans

Aeva Technologies Inc, a maker of a sensing system for self-driving cars founded by two ex-Apple Inc engineers, has added two more veterans from the iPhone maker to its ranks.

James Reuther, who spent more than a decade at NASA before a stint at Apple overseeing new sensing technologies, has joined the company as its vice president of technology. Sawyer Cohen, who spent more than a decade at Apple and was the company’s iPhone product design lead for almost five years, will be Aeva’s senior director of product design.

Founded by former Apple engineers Soroush Salehian and Mina Rezk, Aeva makes a lidar sensor that helps cars gain a three-dimensional view of the road. The sensor can also detect how quickly distant objects are moving, which helps in distinguishing pedestrians from stationary objects.