Incidentally, the engineer was working on a similar project at Nvidia, making his stolen information, even more relevant and powerful. Since then, the engineer has pleaded guilty to stealing privileged information and has also been fined €14,400 ($15,750) in September, in a German court. Nvidia has put its hands up and said that they have no interest in this source code or any of the data that was stolen by their employee and that they will do everything in their power to protect the rights of their employees and brand. Valeo was not interested in this statement and said that the fact that the source code was in Nvidia’s possession meant that they saved millions of dollars in development costs, and as such, must pay a penalty for such unethical practices.
It remains to be seen how this case pans out, but one thing is for sure, the competition in the autonomous driving market is reaching boiling point.
