Ambitious engineer at core of Google’s colossal fight with Uber


  • TECH
  • Friday, 24 Feb 2017

(FILES) This file photo taken on September 13, 2016 shows a pilot model of the Uber self-driving car is displayed at the Uber Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Uber announced December 14, 2016 that it would extend its testing of autonomous vehicles to San Francisco, the second city in its ambitious autonomous ride-sharing project. The move comes three months after Uber began testing self-driving cars to move people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with four vehicles -- along with a driver and technician onboard to deal with any glitches or emergencies. / AFP PHOTO / Angelo Merendino

In 2013, Anthony Levandowski was the star of Google's self-driving car project. The tall, swaggering engineer was featured in a long New Yorker story about the search engine willing the impossible technology into reality. 

Less than four years later, he is Google's enemy number one.  

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