This shouldn&#x27;t be downvoted. Apple has hired a lot of interesting people in the last year:<p>* Paul Furgale - Deputy Director of Autonomous Systems at Swiss FIT<p>* Steve Zadesky - Ford Executive<p>* Robert Gough - Autonomous safety systems for Autolive<p>* David Nelson - Tesla Engineer<p>* Pete Augenbergs - Tesla Product Manager<p>* Hugh Jay - EMCO Gears Transmission&#x2F;Mechanical Design Engineer<p>* Lauren Ciminera - Tesla Recruiter<p>* Jim Cuseo - MIT Motorsports&#x2F;Ford Chief Powertrain Engineer<p>* Mujeeb Ijaz - CTO&#x2F;VP at A123 Batteries &#x2F; Fuel Cell Vehicle Engineering at Ford<p>* Rui Guan - Ogin Drive Train Engineer<p>* Sawyer Cohen - Concept Systems Control Engineer<p>* Dillon Thomasson - General Dynamics Lead Design Engineer<p>* John Morrell - Segway Engineer