[Global Scientific Reporter Li Zongze] According to the US “Wall Street Journal†reported on February 24, Google’s parent company’s fierce competition with Uber in the auto-driving car has developed into a courtroom. The internet giant sued the car company Uber The latter claimed that the latter had stolen trade secrets to start their own self-driving car project.
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Anthony Levandowski, a key manager of Google’s self-driving car project, was charged with secretly downloading 14,000 documents. He then left the company to form Otto, a self-driving truck company, from Alphabet last year. In the same year, the company was acquired by Uber.
According to an appeal filed by Waymo LLC of Alphabet, which filed with the District Court of San Francisco on Thursday, these materials were reportedly used by Uber to develop a laser sensor for autonomous driving navigation. The case also sued several other technical personnel who had left to join Otto's Waymo before downloading technical materials.
Uber did not immediately respond to requests for comment.