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Former Tesla employee admits uploading Autopilot source code to his iCloud

前特斯拉員工承認他把自動駕駛的程式源碼上載到iCloud

Tesla believes he stole company trade secrets and took them to Chinese
startup, Xiaopeng Motors

特斯拉相信他偷了公司的商業機密並把它們帶到中國新創公司：小鵬汽車


Guangzhi Cao, a former engineer at Tesla, admitted in a court filing this
week that he uploaded zip files containing Autopilot source code to his
personal iCloud account in late 2018 while still working for the company.
Tesla sued Cao earlier this year for allegedly stealing trade secrets related
to Autopilot and bringing them to Chinese EV startup Xiaopeng Motors, also
known as Xmotors or XPeng, which is backed by tech giant Alibaba.



Cao denied stealing sensitive information from the automaker in the same
filing. His legal team argued he “made extensive efforts to delete and/or
remove any such Tesla files prior to his separation from Tesla.” Cao is now
the “head of perception” at XPeng, where he is “[d]eveloping and
delivering autonomous driving technologies for production cars,” according
to his LinkedIn profile.

曹否認這個指控，他說他很努力的在離開特斯拉之前把所有跟特斯拉有關的檔案都刪了。
曹現在是小鵬汽車感知部門的頭頭，他負責發展汽車的自動駕駛技術

According to a joint filing from the two parties that was also filed this
week, Tesla has subpoenaed documents from Apple. While Apple is not involved
in this case, a former employee who worked on the tech company’s secretive
autonomous car project was charged by the FBI with stealing trade secrets
last July.

特斯拉傳喚了蘋果的文件。雖然蘋果並沒有參與，但蘋果的前員工也涉嫌偷了特斯拉的
自動駕駛商業機密。

That employee allegedly Air Dropped sensitive data to his wife’s laptop and
was also caught on CCTV 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.
Cao was also a senior image scientist for Apple for two years before he
joined Tesla, according to his LinkedIn profile.

那個員工涉嫌利用Airdrop把敏感資料傳到他老婆的筆電並被抓到在蘋果的園區留下
一盒儀器。他後來離開了蘋果並在被捕前加入了小鵬汽車。曹在加入特斯拉前也
曾經是蘋果員工。

The suit comes at a time when the US is locked in a trade war with China and
has accused the nation and some of its biggest companies of committing
so-called “economic espionage.” Tesla, Apple, XPeng, and a lawyer for Cao
did not respond to requests for comment.



心得：

蠻有趣的，都是利用蘋果的工具來偷。都是蘋果的前員工，都是中國人。
蘋果自己似乎也很愛偷。
相信中國的電動車發展會很快！

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