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Tesla engineer admits to saving autopilot code on iCloud
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IANS | 11 Jul, 2019
Adding to the ongoing tensions between the US and China, a former Tesla
engineer admitted in a court filing that he did upload the company's
autopilot code to his personal iCloud account last year before taking up
a job in a Chinese automobile firm.
Earlier this year, Tesla
sued Guangzhi Cao for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to
autopilot for Alibaba-backed Chinese electric vehicle (EV)-startup
Xiaopeng Motors, also called Xmotors or XPeng.
While Guangzhi
admitted to using his "personal iCloud account to create backup copies
of certain Tesla information in 2018", he denied poaching any employees
from the autopilot team, The Verge reported on Wednesday.
According
to Guangzhi, XPeng extended a job offer to him on December 12, 2018.
The former Tesla employee claimed he disconnected his personal iCloud
account from his Tesla-issued computer "on or around December 26".
After
quitting Tesla, he joined XPeng and currently serves as the company's
'Head of perception' where he is "developing and delivering autonomous
driving technologies for production cars", according to his Linkedin
profile.
Guangzhi was also a senior image scientist for Apple for two years before he joined Tesla.
To
strengthen its case against the Alibaba-backed company, Tesla has also
collected subpoenaed documents from Apple after one of the iPhone
maker's former employee who worked in Apple's secretive autonomous car
project was charged by the FBI for stealing trade secrets and later
joining XPeng.
The former Apple employee allegedly Air dropped
sensitive data to his wife's laptop and was also caught on CCTV camera
leaving Apple's campus with a box of equipment. He had left his job at
Apple to take a position at XPeng before being arrested.
Citing
national security reasons, on May 15, US President Donald Trump
effectively banned Chinese tech player Huawei in the US, following which
major tech giants like Google, Microsoft, Intel and Qualcomm put
restrictions on businesses with the Chinese firm.
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