Musk had predicted earlier that his car would be fully automated in 2018.
data electrek message, after a few months of team reorganization, Tesla’s Autopilot vice president of software engineering Stuart Bowers (Bolles ) confirmed to have resigned and moved to venture capital firm Greylock.
Tesla Autopilot team reorganization started in April this year. Due to the impact of team adjustments, Tesla has been exposed to the news of the departure of autonomous driving R&D engineers since July. The biggest change after the reorganization is that CEO Musk directly at the helm Autopilot team – skip the previous team leader, and more department members report directly to him. As some newcomers are reused, previous team executives are gradually marginalized.
In fact, Tesla executives have been very high, especially the Autopilot team. In the past few years, the Autopilot team has replaced several heads.
In 2016, when the head of the Autopilot project, Sterling Anderson, left the company, the entrepreneurial project was in the field of autonomous driving, and later even controversial, Tszla accused “stealing data”.