In a lawsuit filed in California, Tesla has accused former employee and Autopilot manager Sterling Anderson of stealing proprietary company secrets and software. In addition, Tesla says Anderson worked with Chris Urmson, former head of Google's autonomous car project, of trying to lure Tesla employees away to join a competing tech startup. According to the lawsuit, Anderson was a non-technical program manager of Tesla's autopilot team. Anderson allegedly violated his contract by taking information, attempting to hire away at least a dozen employees, and destroying evidence to cover his tracks. He is also accused of using Urmson as a proxy to try to hire these employees away.

Source: Fox News January 27, 2017 18:37 UTC