Thousands of engineers put Apple self-driving car in high gear Cult of Mac

Apple stays quiet about it, but the company is clearly developing a self-driving car. And this week the world was given a glimpse inside this project, showing that it's much larger than many had previously thought. The FBI arrested a former employee on Apple's autonomous car design team for allegedly downloading proprietary information and attempting take it to a rival car company in China. The resulting documentation reveals the number of employees on the project. There's no room for doubt about what Xiaolang Zhang, the former Apple employee, was working on. "ZHANG was hired at Apple starting December 7, 2015, to work on a project to develop software and hardware for use in autonomous vehicles (the Project)," wrote Eric Proudfoot, the FBI Special Agent investigating this crime, in the official criminal complaint (PDF).