前蘋果工程師被控盜竊自動駕駛相關技術

A federal court has charged a former Apple engineer with stealing trade secrets related to a self-driving car and attempting to flee to China.

Agents in San Jose, California, arrested Xiaolang Zhang on Saturday, moments before he was to board his flight.

Zhang is said to have taken paternity leave in April, traveling to China just after the birth of a child.

When he returned, he informed his supervisors he was leaving Apple to join Xiaopeng Motors, a Chinese company in Guangzhao, which also plans to build self-driving cars.

But security cameras caught Zhang allegedly entering Apple's self-driving car lab and downloading blueprints and other information on a personal computer at the time he was supposed to be in China on paternity leave.

Neither the FBI nor Zhang's lawyers have commented.美國一家聯邦法院起訴一名前蘋果公司工程師偷竊與自動駕駛相關的商業機密，並企圖逃往中國。

加州聖荷西市的執法人員星期六在張曉浪即將登機前往中國時將他逮捕。

張曉浪據說在他孩子出生後今年4月到中國請陪產假。回到美國後，他對上司說他將辭職到位於廣州的小鵬汽車公司工作。這家公司也計劃製造自動駕駛汽車。

但是在張曉浪本應在中國休產假期間，監控攝像頭卻拍到他進入蘋果公司自動駕駛汽車實驗室將設計藍圖和其他資料下載到自己的個人電腦上。

美國聯邦調查局和張曉浪的律師都還沒有發表評論。