Serious allegations: Alphabet contends that a manager at its autonomous car subsidiary Waymo took technical data with him when he left to launch a competing venture that went on to become Otto, Uber
SAN FRANCISCO: The race to develop self-driving vehicles took a new turn when Google’s parent company Alphabet filed a lawsuit against Uber, accusing it of stealing technology.
Alphabet contends that a manager at its autonomous car subsidiary Waymo took technical data with him when he left to launch a competing venture that went on to become Otto, Uber’s self-driving vehicle unit, in a reported US$680mil (RM3.02bil) deal.
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