Uber battling to keep its self-driving service alive, reports say

Uber’s long list of scandals that have hit the company in the past few months includes one problem that will not go away as fast or as easily as Uber would like it to.

Earlier this year, Google’s self-driving car division sued Uber and accused the ride-sharing company of stealing proprietary technology from Waymo.

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Specifically, Waymo says that a former lead engineer took self-driving car tech secrets when he left the company last year.

That engineer, one of the top Google minds in this particular business, formed his own self-driving car startup that was purchased by Uber soon after that for close to $700 million.

Now, Uber has to fight it out in courts with Google for the life of its self-driving car plans.

 

 

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