Levandowski with his attorney Miles Ehrlich (right) as they leave a federal courthouse in San Jose, California. Levandowski was charged Aug 27 with stealing closely guarded secrets that he later sold to Uber as the ride-hailing service scrambled to catch up in the high-stakes race to build robotic vehicles. — AP
DETROIT: A self-driving vehicle pioneer who used to work for Google has been charged with stealing secrets from the company before he joined Uber's efforts to build robotic vehicles.
Anthony Levandowski was charged with 33 counts of trade secrets theft in an indictment filed Tuesday by the US attorney's office in San Jose, California. The criminal case arose out of a lawsuit that Google self-driving spinoff Waymo filed against Uber alleging technology theft.
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