Apple engineer steals secrets on self-driving cars and flees to China, US feds say
A former Apple engineer accused of absconding from the company with trade secrets on self-driving cars fled to China, federal officials reported. T...
A former Apple engineer accused of absconding from the company with trade secrets on self-driving cars fled to China, federal officials reported. The 35-year-old Mountain View, California, resident joined Apple in 2016 as a software engineer to work on autonomous systems, such as those used in self-driving vehicles, the US Attorney's Office for Northern California said in a May 16 news release. In 2017, he agreed to move to a US subsidiary of a company based in China that also was working on self-driving vehicles, prosecutors said.