Tesla Sues Ex-Autopilot Director, Alleging Stolen Secrets
- Company accuses Sterling Anderson of poaching data, employees
- Anderson began startup with former Google car project chief
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Tesla Motors Inc. sued the former director of its Autopilot program, accusing him of taking confidential information about the company’s driver-assist system and trying to recruit at least a dozen former colleagues to a new startup.
Sterling Anderson started working last summer on the new autonomous-car venture, Aurora Innovation LLC, before his departure from the company in December, Tesla alleged Thursday. Anderson has been collaborating with Chris Urmson, the former head of Google’s self-driving car project, according to a complaint filed in state court in San Jose, California.