Elon Musk Responds To The News Over Apple Reportedly Abandoning Its Self-Driving Project, In Two Emojis

A few hours after it was revealed that Apple had severed all work being done on its autonomous car project, Tesla CEO Elon Musk decided to take advantage of the platform that he acquired and renamed to X as he responded to the latest news. However, Musk’s reaction was thoroughly subtle and included just two emojis, opening a wave of speculation on what exactly he meant.

One salute emoji from Musk’s post could be a farewell response to Apple halting all development work on its car project

On X, Musk took the opportunity to likely take a dig at Apple based on the latest reaction, which comprised of just two emojis. The first one was the salute emoji, indicating that Musk is attempting to commend Apple for getting into this category or paying his respects to the technology giant’s now-canceled project.

Related Story Apple Abandoning Its Work On ‘Project Titan’ Was The Right Move, Claim Analysts, Allowing The Company To Become Laser-Focused On AI

The second emoji is a cigarette, which was likely being used to describe that Musk can take a breather now that Apple is no longer working on ‘Project Titan,’ or that he knew all along that it takes more than the trillion-dollar valuation of a company to make a self-driving vehicle that is completely electric.

In any case, most of Apple’s staff working on the autonomous car have been shifted to the artificial intelligence team, where they will probably be working on generative AI under executive John Giannandrea. It was also speculated that some of the workforce will be laid off, and since Musk has got wind of the news, he, or Tesla, may try to recruit the stragglers to work on future electric vehicles, allowing them to properly harness their talent.

It was reported that Apple abandoned all work on ‘Project Titan’ because it was not viable, which probably means that the millions invested would not translate into a product pricing that would work in the market, especially compared to what various Tesla EVs cost. There is no word