Mapbox Hires Former Tesla Autopilot Designer to Rethink Driverless-Car Maps

Brennan Boblett helped reimagine maps in increasingly automated cars

Brennan Boblett, who helped pioneer the look of touch screen interfaces in increasingly autonomous vehicles, is joining well-funded startup Mapbox Inc. to help create digital maps for passengers in driverless cars.

Mapbox provides mapping and location-search technology to a variety of companies including messaging-app developer Snap Inc. and General Electric Co. In October, it raised $164 million in a round led by SoftBank Group to expand its efforts into the automotive industry.

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