Engineer who stole Apple’s self-driving car plans sentenced to prison and fined
- February 9, 2024
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It is known that Apple has been developing cars for more than a decade. The car, about which not much information has been shared to this day, came
It is known that Apple has been developing cars for more than a decade. The car, about which not much information has been shared to this day, came to light in a theft incident within the company years ago. There was a major development today regarding the incident.
According to 9to5Mac, the person who stole information about Apple’s self-driving car called “Project Titan” in 2018 Xiaolang Zhang, 120 days in jail and 146 thousand 984 dollars He was sentenced to prison. The normal punishment for Zhang was 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Zhang stole a 25-page document about Apple’s car and passed it on to a car company in China
Xiaolang Zhang, who works at the company as a hardware engineer, made a video in 2018 showing the schematics of the company’s autonomous vehicle. Transfer a 25-page document to his wife’s computer via AirDrop stole. He also copied manuals describing Apple’s prototypes and documents from the company’s development labs.
The same year, Zhang parted ways with Apple and went to China. However, he never returned from this trip and informed the company that he was resigning. The engineer gave the reason for this as a Chinese car company. Will work at Xpeng Motors it offered. After this, Apple became suspicious because Xpeng was also working on autonomous vehicles and started an investigation against Zhang. The investigation revealed through security cameras that Zhang had stolen the documents.
Zhang, who worked on many projects during his time at Apple, especially autonomous vehicles, was caught at San Jose airport in the US in July 2018 while trying to go to China. The engineer, who did not initially admit to his crime, claimed that he stole the documents in 2022 Confessed. The decision now taken determined his punishment.
It is still unknown whether Apple will actually release its autonomous vehicle. Recent information has revealed that the company continues to work on the vehicle but has given up on the idea of ​​making it fully autonomous. The release date was claimed to be out of 2028.
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