A file photo of Levandowski at the launch of the pilot model of the Uber self-driving car at the Uber Advanced Technologies Center on Sept 13, 2016 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Levandowski was hit with criminal charges on August 27, 2019, alleging he stole trade secrets from the technology giant's self-driving car project and took them to Uber. — AFP
Uber Technologies Inc chief executive officer Dara Khosrowshahi said Thursday that "it sure looked like" former executive Anthony Levandowski took information on self-driving cars from his former employer, Google.
Prosecutors charged Levandowski this week with 33 counts of stealing trade secrets from Alphabet Inc’s autonomous-vehicle unit Waymo. The charges revive a painful period for Uber when co-founder Travis Kalanick still ran the company. Levandowski was fired by Uber and Kalanick later resigned and was replaced by Khosrowshahi two years ago.
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