The Department of Justice has charged a third ex-engineer over the alleged theft of self-driving car tech in 2018, after the engineer tried to hand Apple’s trade secrets over to a Chinese autonomous driving tech company.
Apple’s self-driving vehicle testbedAnnounced on Tuesday, the DoJ revealed it had filed charges at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco against Weibao Wang on April 11, 2023. Wang stands accused of the theft and the attempt at taking Apple’s “entire autonomy source code,” tracking systems, behavior planning systems, and system hardware descriptions.

