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Apple engineer stole the secrets of the mysterious ‘Apple Car’ before leaving the company

A company car, as follows from the documents, was already planned until 2018. | Font: Photo by Andy Wang on Unsplash

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Former engineer from Mansana confessed to stealing confidential information about a still “secret” project AppleCar.

Xiaolang Zhang pleaded guilty to stealing this information before leaving the company in 2018 when he moved to manufacturer XPeng.

Information theft

According to an investigation carried out MansanaZhang transferred 24 GB of “extremely problematic” files to his wife’s computer. In addition, he borrowed printed circuit boards and a server from the laboratory of the company’s autonomous vehicle division.

It is expected that after the confession of the defendant, the verdict will be handed down on November 14, the comments say. The Verge. Under US law, he faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

In 2019, it was discovered that another engineer secretly leaked project details to XPeng, the same company where this former engineer worked. This case is still going on.

half confirmed

Interestingly, the fact that Mansana the disclosure of this data from theft to its autonomous car division confirms the open secret of developing its own electric vehicle.

California approvals are already signaling that the company is testing its technology on the road, but the iPhone maker itself has always kept its mouth shut on any future products.

The car is expected to be fully autonomous and is rumored to work exactly like a high-end iPhone. Manzana. With the help of the voice assistant Siri, the car could also be parked in a specific place.

Some of the patents the technology company has acquired indicate that Mansana he could hide the steering wheel of a car and would only appear in an emergency.

Recently, Mansana hired veteran Ford executive Desi Uikaszewicz to oversee the development of the car. Reports also suggest that Mansana is collaborating with a South Korean semiconductor assembly and testing company (OSAT) to develop autopilot technology for a car.

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