(New York Times) While Apple has been preparing to release its first wearable computers, the company has also been busy assembling a team to work on an automobile.
The company has collected about 200 people over the last few years — both from inside Apple and potential competitors like Tesla — to develop technologies for an electric car, according to two people with knowledge of the company's plans, who asked not to be named because the plans were private.
The car project is still in its prototype phase, one person said, meaning it is probably many years away from being a viable product and might never reach the mass market if the quality of the vehicle fails to impress Apple's executives.
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