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Tesla sued Xiaopeng automobile employees in the "secret theft case" so far, but the two sides recently had a "quarrel", thus pushing the incident to us again. He Xiaopeng, the CEO of Xiaopeng car, said bluntly that he Xiaopeng was mentally prepared to be beaten by us in China.

In March 2019, Tesla sued Cao Guangzhi, a former Chinese researcher of Autopilot computer vision, accusing him of stealing the source code of Autopilot autopilot technology and joining Xiaopeng Automobile, a Chinese electric car startup. Mr Cao admitted in court that he had backed up a compressed file containing AutoPilot source code to his iCloud cloud account at the end of 2018, but that the file had been deleted when he left office.

Xiaopeng responded at the time, "before and after Mr. Cao Guangzhi joined the job, Xiaopeng did not find any possible violations claimed by Tesla." A further investigation has been launched into the matter. " In April 2020, Xiaopeng issued an official statement saying that in the past year, Xiaopeng had made no efforts to assist in the investigation, but so far there was no evidence that Xiaopeng had abused trade secrets or other misconduct.

Until recently, Musk made relevant remarks, and then pushed the incident to the front of the curtain.

Xiaopeng Motor will upgrade its self-driving software and hardware system and use lidar technology to improve performance starting with models produced in 2021, Xiaopeng said in a statement during the Guangzhou Auto Show on November 20.

The news aroused the interest of US industry insiders because it means that Xiaopeng's sensor scheme will be different from the existing Tesla vehicles next year, and made comments on Twitter.

Later, Musk forwarded the message, saying that although Xiaopeng had Tesla's old software, it did not have our latest neural network computer. "obviously, this is just Xiaopeng's problem, and other Chinese companies have not done so."

Musk's remarks also indirectly explained that Xiaopeng Motor had Tesla Autopilot-related secrets and named the "theft case."

Not long after, he Xiaopeng, the CEO of Xiaopeng car, suddenly posted an "angry" message, suspected of responding to Musk's remarks.

He Xiaopeng said, "it seems that the next-generation self-driving structure of Xiaopeng, which includes lidar, that we released yesterday upset someone in the west. What I want to say is that rumor-mongering has long proved that it is impossible to beat any competitors. Starting from next year, when you are on autopilot in China, you should be prepared to be beaten by us so that you can't find the east. As for international, we will meet. "

Domestic autopilot competition is very fierce, the major manufacturers have invested a lot of money to achieve early application, so as to lead other competitors to compete for the market. Not long ago, Musk revealed that Tesla will complete the research and development and testing of the basic functions of L5 self-driving by the end of this year, leading other car companies. Tesla has already tested FSD functions many times in the United States.

At present, there is overlap and competition between Tesla's domestic Model 3 and Xiaopeng P7. Data from the Federation of passengers show that domestic Model sold 12143 units in March and October. The delivery volume of the Xiaopeng P7 was 2104 in October.

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