According to Bloomberg, desi ujkashevic, an engineer who has worked for Ford for a long time, has left the company and chose to join apple to work on the apple car project. Ujkashevic has worked for Ford for more than 30 years. She has expertise in safety systems, engineering design and delivery, body interior engineering and so on.
Information from Ford's website shows that after leaving Ford for Apple Previously, ujkashevic served as the global director of the Ford Motor safety engineering office, but before that, she was the engineering director of the North American automobile project, responsible for the engineering of automobile and utility projects and managing the delivery of engineering design, including achieving cost, profit, quality and time objectives. Previously, Desi was the global director of interior engineering. She led the interior strategy, project implementation, quality and launch of all global projects. Prior to this, Desi completed a three-year international assignment in Germany as the engineering director of Ford's body system and design operation.
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Ujkashevic first joined Ford in 1991 and has participated in the development of Ford Escape, explorer, fiesta and focus for many years. In addition, she has also participated in the development of electric vehicles. Ujkashevic has a wealth of expertise that will benefit Apple's auto project, and she may also participate in safeguards to help Apple develop electric vehicles.
Bloomberg has previously said that Apple hopes Apple cars are safer than Tesla and waymo cars and have backup systems to avoid driving system failures.
Over the past few years, Apple has been recruiting regularly from Ford and other auto companies because it is committed to developing fully independent auto products. Apple's car project has been facing the problem of wavering ideas of the leadership, and Apple's goals have changed several times, but the latest rumors show that apple is expected to deliver a car sometime in the next decade.
It is said that Apple's goal is to launch in 2025, but problems in car development may delay the project until 2028.