Google-owned Waymo sues Uber for stealing its self-driving car technology
Friday, February 24, 2017 IST
A self-driving car company based by Google is colliding with experience-haling carrier Uber in a courtroom battle revolving around allegations of betrayal, excessive-tech espionage and greed.
The brewing showdown emerged past due Thursday in a lawsuit filed in a San Francisco federal court docket by using Waymo, an as soon as-secretive self-riding agency hatched by means of Google eight years ago.
The 28-page grievance accuses Anthony Levandowski, a former pinnacle supervisor for Google’s self-driving vehicle challenge, of stealing pivotal era now propelling Uber’s attempt to collect a fleet of autonomous motors for its ride-hailing carrier.
The alleged chicanery occurred in late 2015, earlier than Levandowski left to observed a startup referred to as Otto that is constructing big-rig vans that navigate highways without a human at the back of the wheel. Uber bought Otto for $680 million closing 12 months, and Levandowski is now overseeing Uber’s attempt to develop and dispatch automobiles driven by way of robots.
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