Elon Musk says Tesla’s Chinese rival ‘stole’ Apple’s code
A Twitter user asked if the Chinese company had a copy of Tesla’s old source code, Elon Musk said yes and added something more. Musk responded to that tweet by adding that Xpeng had stolen Apple’s code too, referring to an incident that took place in 2018.
Elon Musk’s Tesla has a Chinese rival that calls itself Xpeng. Xpeng, the Chinese electric car maker has recently been all over the news, as per reports, for equipping its cars with LiDar sensors, which the Tesla CEO thought was “expensive” and “unnecessary”.
Following this, somebody on Twitter referenced that with Xpeng utilizing LiDar tech, they were currently moving endlessly from duplicating Tesla’s procedure. Musk answered this by expressing that Xpeng has a more seasoned adaptation of Tesla’s product and don’t have their NN surmising PC.
Another Twitter client inquired as to whether the Chinese organization had a duplicate of Tesla’s old source code, Musk said yes and added something else. Musk reacted to that tweet by adding that Xpeng had taken Apple’s code as well, alluding to an episode that occurred in 2018.
In 2018, an ex-Apple engineer was captured and accused of taking exclusive data that was identified with Apple’s for some time supposed self-driving vehicle venture. The specialist who was captured had begun working for Apple in 2015 and was blamed for downloading certain records identified with designing the schematic and specialized reports. He at that point quit Apple and began working for XMotors, the electric vehicle organization situated in China.
Discussing LiDar sensors, in the event that you are befuddled by any opportunity – this is the tech Apple initially put on its iPad Pros and afterward on the new iPhone 12 Pro and the iPhone 12 Pro Max. This tech, Light Detection, and Ranging enable iPads and iPhone cameras to identify objects on the screen better for better photographs and better AR.
Musk has clarified that dislike he doesn’t care for LiDar sensors, he referenced in another tweet that LiDar sensors are utilized by SpaceX, yet he simply doesn’t think they are valuable in Tesla vehicles.
“Simply silly IMO for self-driving. In case you will do dynamic photon age, utilize an impediment infiltrating frequency, similar to accuracy radar at ~4mm,” Musk tweeted.
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