Uber Fires Controversial Head Of Self-Driving Car Efforts

After a terrible weekend for CEO Travis Kalanick, The New York Times reports that Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski, a vice president of technology and the star engineer leading the company’s self-driving automobile efforts (at the center of the Uber-Waymo legal battle), according to an internal email sent to employees on Tuesday.
Mr. Levandowski’s termination, effective immediately, comes as a result of his involvement in a legal battle between Uber and Waymo, the self-driving technology unit spun out of Google last year.
Waymo claims that Uber is using trade secrets stolen from Google to develop Uber’s self-driving vehicles, a plan aided by Mr. Levandowski, a former longtime Google employee.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on May 30, 2017.