Apple tapping brakes on self-driving cars

Apple is tapping the brakes on its self-driving car project as it maps a new route, The New York Times reported. The Silicon Valley-based technology colossus has closed parts of the endeavor, which it never publicly confirmed, and laid off dozens of workers as part of a "reboot," the Times said, citing people briefed on the matter. The team at what Apple named project Titan had grown to more than a thousand people but ran into problems, including showing what it could do differently from other c