Apple executives have never publicly spoken about the company’s self-driving car program, but filings in a criminal court case last month confirmed that the com

Apple executives have never publicly spoken about the company’s self-driving car program, but filings in a criminal court case last month confirmed that the company had at least 5,000 employees working on the project and that it was working on circuit boards and a “proprietary chip” related to self-driving cars. That sounds like a lot of people working on this project. The estimate appears to come from this July 2018 article: But the complaint also for the first time gave an official account of some details of the self-driving car program. About 5,000 employees were authorized to access information about the program, including about 2,700 “core” employees with access to secret databases. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-autonomous/criminal-case-sheds-light-on-apple-self-driving-car-technology-idUSKBN1K109O https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-autonomous/criminal... What's the plan here? To retrofit a Lexus or similar car with self-driving features or build a self-driving car from scratch?