Tesla to Apple: Help Us Nail Robocar-Secrets Thief
- Tesla serves iPhone maker with subpoena related to a lawsuit
- Former Tesla engineer accused of downloading Autopilot code
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Tesla Inc. and Apple Inc. both suspect they were betrayed by driverless technology engineers who defected to the same Chinese startup.
So, Tesla is now asking for Apple’s help in a lawsuit in which the electric carmaker accused an engineer who worked on its Autopilot program of taking thousands of highly confidential files when he went to work for XMotors.ai, the U.S. research arm of Guangzhou-based Xpeng.