Another top Tesla executive leaves the company, after six months in the job
San Francisco — Chris Lattner, who joined Tesla from Apple as vice-president of the company’s Autopilot Software, has departed after less than six months on the job, adding to ranks of executives leaving the car maker. "Turns out that Tesla isn’t a good fit for me after all," Lattner, who joined the company in January, wrote Tuesday on Twitter. Jim Keller now has overall responsibility for Autopilot hardware and software, according to a statement from Tesla. Keller joined the car maker from Advanced Micro Devices in January 2016. The company also said Andrej Karpathy had joined as the director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision, reporting directly to CEO Elon Musk. Karpathy and Keller will work closely together. "Chris just wasn’t the right fit for Tesla, and we’ve decided to make a change," Tesla said in the statement. "We wish him the best." Tesla’s autopilot programme has struggled with turnover and the company parted ways with Mobileye, a Jerusalem-based provider of...
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