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Alphabet’s Waymo Sues Uber Over Self-Driving Car Secrets

Suit accuses former Waymo employees of downloading information and leaving to join Uber’s Otto

https://www.wsj.com/articles/alphabets-waymo-sues-uber-over-self-driving-car-secrets-1487894378

What goes around comes around!

They lured some of the highly reputed researchers of AI labs from CMU by offering all kinds of benefits. Google is not CMU to sit silent and watch while someone steals it's people and ideas. 

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UBER bad time from last week...harassment at workplace and now theft of Intelligence...read the waymo lawsuit you will be amazed to see the wording.

Apparently it took google 7 years to build on that technology for SDcars and Uber just took 9 months .

Uber hired previous employee of waymo who downloaded about 13gigs of confidential data related to technology

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15 minutes ago, camsam said:

UBER bad time from last week...harassment at workplace and now theft of Intelligence...read the waymo lawsuit you will be amazed to see the wording.

Apparently it took google 7 years to build on that technology for SDcars and Uber just took 9 months .

Uber hired previous employee of waymo who downloaded about 13gigs of confidential data related to technology

Even before that, Uber lured top talent from CMU. CMU started driverless concept 30 years back. Uber set up a tech center in Pittsburgh to target these researchers.  

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carnegie-mellon-in-robotics-1433084582

https://engineering.cmu.edu/alumni/magazine/2015_spring/self-driving_cars.html

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36 minutes ago, Batman_fan said:

Even before that, Uber lured top talent from CMU. CMU started driverless concept 30 years back. Uber set up a tech center in Pittsburgh to target these researchers.  

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carnegie-mellon-in-robotics-1433084582

https://engineering.cmu.edu/alumni/magazine/2015_spring/self-driving_cars.html

Yeah man , will be interesting to watch what google will make UBER pay for this

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1 hour ago, camsam said:

UBER bad time from last week...harassment at workplace and now theft of Intelligence...read the waymo lawsuit you will be amazed to see the wording.

Apparently it took google 7 years to build on that technology for SDcars and Uber just took 9 months .

Uber hired previous employee of waymo who downloaded about 13gigs of confidential data related to technology

actually all this came into lime light because of an accidental CC in the email by a vendor.

google has proofs against the ex employee who is a top executive in uber now.

 

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