Waymo, the self-driving car subsidiary of Google's
parent company, Alphabet, has accused one of its former engineers,
of stealing thousands of confidential documents before joining
Uber's self-driving team.
Background
Waymo, the self-driving car subsidiary of Google's parent
company, Alphabet, has accused one of its former engineers of
stealing thousands of confidential documents before joining
Uber's self-driving team. Uber maintains it was unaware that
the former Waymo employee, Anthony Levandowski, had allegedly
downloaded 14,000 documents from Google's autonomous vehicle
unit before leaving to launch his own start up, Otto, which Uber
later acquired.
Waymo and Uber are racing to develop the first network of
self-driving cars, to create what would be a potentially huge (and
profitable) transportation service in the future. The crucial
Intellectual Property (IP) that was allegedly stolen involves
'LiDAR', a new type of laser system that allows the cars to
see
