Tesla Loses Autopilot Software Chief After Less Than Six Months
- Software engineer Lattner says company wasn’t a ‘good fit’
- Head of Autopilot Anderson left the carmaker in December
Tesla Motor Inc. associates work on the Model S electric car at the company's factory in Fremont, California.
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Tesla Inc.’s team developing self-driving car capabilities lost a top engineer hired less than six months ago from Apple Inc., adding to a spate of executive shakeups at tech companies competing to put fully autonomous vehicles on the road.
Chris Lattner, who left Apple in January and had been vice president of the carmaker’s Autopilot software, was the hire Tesla touted earlier this year after losing Sterling Anderson, the head of its Autopilot program. Since August, Tesla, Uber Technologies Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo have each lost executives who led their respective self-driving efforts.