Apple Changing Gears Yet Again on Autonomous Driving

It's been a while since investors have heard anything regarding Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL)autonomous driving ambitions, known as Project Titan. Since the project's inception, Apple has changed gears numerous times, including deciding about a year and a half ago that actually manufacturing a car was too tall of an order to fill.

Manufacturing dominates the operations of all auto companies, and Apple outsourced production of its own devices long ago. CEO Tim Cook has since acknowledged that the company is now " focusing on autonomous systems," and has been prototyping modular roof-mounted lidar systems.