Reuters last month reported that Google has been bolstering its self-driving car team as of late, and now as April rolls in, we’ve uncovered some more information on new hires as the team continues to expand. In one case, Google has added an ex-Apple global supply manager for the iPhone and the Apple Watch to the self-driving car supply management team…

Daniel Munoz Tim Willis

We haven’t decided yet how we’re going to bring this to market. Right now our engineers are trying to figure out the answers to all of the difficult questions…how to make a car genuinely drive itself. Once we figure that out, we’ll figure out how to bring it to market. Is it going to be something we manufacture at scale [or] sell to individuals [or] something that we own and operate as a service? We just don’t know. How people want to use these vehicles is very difficult to predict.

Hiring and continuing to bring in ex-supply managers for products like the iPhone, Mac, and the Apple Watch would perhaps suggest that Google is already eyeing mass market potential for the cars. That wouldn’t be too much of a long shot, considering Tesla’s all-electric Model 3 just managed to snag 276,000 reservations in only a few days. Elon Musk says that part 2 of the Model 3 unveil will “take things to another level,” and that could very possibly mean some sort of fully-autonomous or mostly-autonomous AutoPilot. That would put the Model 3 closer to direct competition with Google’s car.

Other transitions and hirings from last month include Sr. Software Engineer Warren Craddock who heads back to Google[x] after departing the Glass team in 2014 and a short stint in the Machine Intelligence group, Lead CAD Specialist Albert Shane who moved over from Nest (which has been in turmoil lately), and surely many others. In February, Google added Senior Engineer Simon Ellgas to the team who previously worked at BMW, as well as David Hutchison from the Intel Photonics lab.

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