{"id":1033,"date":"2017-02-25T07:17:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T07:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2017-02-25T07:17:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T07:17:26","slug":"alphabets-car-company-waymo-sues-uber-over-self-driving-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/alphabets-car-company-waymo-sues-uber-over-self-driving-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet&#8217;s Car Company Waymo Sues Uber Over Self-Driving Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/745px-Googles_Lexus_RX_450h_Self-Driving_Car.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-677\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/745px-Googles_Lexus_RX_450h_Self-Driving_Car-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"745px-Google's_Lexus_RX_450h_Self-Driving_Car\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/745px-Googles_Lexus_RX_450h_Self-Driving_Car-300x241.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/745px-Googles_Lexus_RX_450h_Self-Driving_Car.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Alphabet\u2019s rivalry with Uber got\u00a0even more heated up as the internet giant sued the ride-hailing company for allegedly stealing self-driving cars secrets.<br \/>\nAccording to a\u00a0lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Thursday, a former Google employee stole the designs and technology and started a new company.<br \/>\nGoogle&#8217;s self-driving car company, Waymo, was \u2018apparently inadvertently\u2019 copied on an email from a startup providing components for Uber. There was an attachment showing drawings of Uber&#8217;s technology: a lidar circuit board that had \u2018a striking resemblance\u2019 to Waymo\u2019s design, according to the complaint.<!--more--><br \/>\nThe complaint accuses Anthony Levandowski, a former key manager for Google self-driving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">car<\/a> project, of secretly downloading 14,000 proprietary and confidential files from its\u00a0hardware systems and later using the information to launch a\u00a0self-driving truck company called Otto. Uber acquired Otto last August and put Anthony Levandowski in charge of its self-driving project.<br \/>\nIt took\u00a0Waymo seven years to design its laser-scanning system in order to guide its autonomous cars.\u00a0Uber did the same in nine months. Google&#8217;s self-driving car company claims that was possible because the drawings of its 3-D sensors had been stolen.<br \/>\nAccording to Tyler Ochoa, a professor at\u00a0Santa Clara University School of Law, the allegations are very serious and \u201cthe trade secret case by itself is a blockbuster.\u201d<br \/>\nThe complaint includes such specific information about the design and the dates the information was downloaded that it is hard to believe \u201cthey would put those accusations into print unless they had evidence&#8221; said Ochoa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet\u2019s rivalry with Uber got\u00a0even more heated up as the internet giant sued the ride-hailing company for allegedly stealing self-driving cars secrets. 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