Uber fires executive accused of stealing Google’s self-driving car secrets
Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski, the former head of its self-driving car project, according to the New York Times. Levandowski came to Uber after a long stint at Google, where he helped launch that company’s own self-driving car project before it was spun off into a standalone company called Waymo. Earlier this year, Waymo filed a lawsuit against Uber, alleging that Levandowski stole some 14,000 documents from Waymo, and that that information became the technological basis for Uber’s self-driving cars.
Levandowski had already stepped away from running Uber’s self-driving car project, with the company moving him to an operations role in late April. Uber has denied the allegations against Levandowski, and in the meantime has been trying…
