Many are the companies that are immersed today in the development of all that technology that is used so that any vehicle can move completely autonomously and, as expected, these same companies sooner or later were going to start to confront each other in the matter of patents, theft of secret information ...
The first who seem to have entered this long and stormy relationship have been none other than Google, or rather Waymo, a company owned by Alphabet that has just been created to take care of everything related to autonomous vehicles, and Uber or, in turn, a company within Uber such as Otto, the one in charge of developing autonomous trucks.
Waymo denounces Otto for stealing almost 10 GB of confidential information on LIDAR development.
Going into a little more detail, as has just been announced, apparently Waymo has sued a specific person, Anthony Levandowski, an engineer with a lot of experience in this sector who once worked for Google and left the company to set up Otto, who today has become an important executive within Uber.
In the lawsuit it is said that Anthony Levandowski could rob Google when he left the company no less than about 14.000 confidential documents owned by the multinational company, where a large number of technical details appeared on the hardware used and developed by Google in its autonomous vehicles, such as details on the use and placement of the different LIDAR sensors.
Apparently Google found out about all this due to an email sent by one of UBER's providers where one of these schemes appeared. The problem is that curiously and, according to say, accidentally, Waymo's email was in a copy. According to Waymo's complaint, apparently in his last weeks at the company, Levandowski was able to download 9,7 GB of confidential information of the company.