The action comes after the former self-driving car tech star failed to turn over stolen technical data to comply with a federal judge’s order in Uber’s high-stakes legal fight with Waymo.
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Uber fires head of self-driving car unit amid lawsuit over stolen Google secrets
Anthony Levandowski has invoked fifth amendment during deposition after he was accused of bringing 14,000 internal documents with him from Waymo
Uber has fired the head of its self-driving car unit, Anthony Levandowski, amid the continuing fallout from the engineer’s alleged…
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Uber fires Anthony Levandowski, engineer at center of legal battle with Waymo
Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski, the star engineer at the center of the company’s fight with self-driving rival Waymo.
Levandowski — a former Waymo employee who until recently was leading Uber’s effort to replace human drivers with robot cars —…
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Uber Just Fired the Executive At the Center of Its Self-Driving Car Lawsuit
Uber, the embattled but well-funded ride-hailing company, has reportedly fired the executive in charge of its self-driving car efforts.
Anthony Levandowski was a vice president of technology at the San Francisco company before he was terminated on Tuesday, according to an…
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Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski, the star engineer at the helm of its self-driving car efforts
Two weeks ago, Uber threatened to sack the star engineer at the helm of its self-driving car project for failing to cooperate with a legal investigation. Today, it made good on the threat.
Uber emailed employees on May 30 informing them…
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What’s Driving Automotive Storage?
In addition to rapidly changing infotainment systems, more connected cars, ADAS and autonomous cars are drastically altering automakers‘ requirements for local on-board storage in the vehicle.
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Uber Fires Former Google Engineer at Heart of Self-Driving Dispute
Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, left, with Anthony Levandowski, a vice president of technology at Uber, whose firing was announced to staff members on Tuesday.
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Uber fires Otto co-founder Anthony Levandowski due to Waymo dispute
Uber has terminated the employment of Anthony Levandowski, the co-founder of self-driving trucking company Otto and Uber’s former self-driving project engineering lead. The New York Times reported first on Levandowski’s firing, which was made official to employees via an internal…
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