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Uber Exec, Accused Of Stealing Google Driverless Car Technology, Takes The Fifth

April 3, 2017

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The former head of Google’s self-driving car project is invoking his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination, in an effort to avoid having to disclose information that would identify “the existence, location or possession” of documents he has been accused of downloading when he worked at Google. According  to a lawsuit filed by Waymo (the Google spinoff that is developing self-driving vehicle technology), after downloading the IP at issue, Anthony Levandowski colluded with Uber to use the information to advance Uber’s own autonomous vehicle project, which is headed by Levandowski.  Uber’s associate general counsel said the company is “very confident that Waymo’s claims against Uber are baseless and that Anthony Levandowski has not used any files from Google in his work with Otto or Uber.” Otto was Levandowski’s self-driving truck company, which Uber acquired for $680 million a few months after it was formed.

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