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Apple cancels its autonomous electric car project and is laying off some workers


The decision brings an end to a decade-long attempt to enter the automotive space, which involved numerous pivots and thousands of workers.

Apple is scuttling its secretive, long-running project to build an autonomous electric car, according to Bloomberg. The company has already started laying off some people who worked on the project, TechCrunch has learned. It pivoted repeatedly over the last decade, though, oscillating between an emphasis on making an all-electric Tesla competitor and a fully-autonomous vehicle more akin to what Waymo has created.

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