The lawsuit filed by Waymo, formerly Googles self-driving car unit, claiming Uber stole trade secrets has a lot of bad things to say about Anthony Levandowski.
It accuses him of stealing 14,000 confidential files about Waymos self-driving technology, including detailed designs of proprietary circuit boards and the laser ranging LiDAR systems, when he was employed there. After covering his tracks, the lawsuit alleges, Levandowski pocketed a multimillion-dollar payout from Google and, using the secrets he had just stolen, promptly set up a new company, Otto, whoch was acquired shortly after by Uber for around $680m.
Whether the explosive allegations are true has not been decided yet, but what is known is that the brilliant engineer has a history of skirting the rules.
Levandowski, described blandly in the suit as a former manager at Waymo, did more than any other person to make Google a world leader in self-driving vehicles.
Källa: Who is Anthony Levandowski, and why is Google suing him? | Technology | The Guardian
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