Tesla’s Autopilot Head Departs With Hiring of Apple Engineer
- Sterling Anderson leaves post managing driver-assist system
- Chris Lattner, who led Apple’s Swift development, joins Tesla
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Tesla Motors Inc.’s head of Autopilot, the driver-assist system packaged with its Model S and Model X electric cars, has left the company as a top engineer from Apple Inc. joins as chief of software.
Sterling Anderson, director of Autopilot programs since November 2015, departed Palo Alto, California-based Tesla in December, his LinkedIn page shows. Chris Lattner, who led the 2014 introduction of Apple’s Swift programming language for apps on its devices, has been named vice president of Autopilot software, according to a Tesla blog post.