Waymo who took over Google's automatic driving car plan appeals Uber as "stealing corporate secret"

In December 2016New company independent company "Waymo" took over Google's automatic driving car projectUber and its subsidiary Otto (OttoMotto · Otto Tracking) appealed that the trade secrets related to the automated driving car were stolen, providing a dispatch service and also working on automatic driving technology.

A note on our lawsuit against Otto and Uber - Waymo - Medium
https://medium.com/waymo/a-note-on-our-lawsuit-against-otto-and-uber-86f4f98902a1


The official blog Waymo has set up at Medium describes the detailed reasons why you filed an appeal.

Google's automated driving car project, which became under the management of Waymo, was formed in 2009, repeatedly tested by making custom software and hardware in-house, succeeded in automatic driving on the public road for the first time in the world.

One of the technologies supporting this automatic driving car system is "LiDAR(Rider) "is. By measuring how long it takes to shoot millions of laser beams and return, it is a mechanism to monitor the surrounding situation, and Waymo has developed millions of millions of laser beams to develop its own LiDAR system We have thrown dollars and thousands of hours.

Waymo, however, pointed out that former employee Anthony Levandowski brought this confidential document to Otto. Otto was originally a startup company and is developing LiDAR, and it is believed that Liver had reasons why Uber acquired it.

According to Waymo, Levandowski accessed the design server six weeks before he retired and downloaded 9.7 GB of confidential material on LiDAR with file size of 14,000 or more. After obtaining the data, I erased the fingerprint, so I cleanly wiped the PC used for access and I was going to reformat.

Levandowski told his colleagues that he had plans to "copy" Waymo's technology to its competitors before retirement.

Uber commented, "I will accept allegations against Otto and Uber's employees and carefully consider them."

By the way, around Uber in January 2017"# DeleteUber" urging account deletion is included in the trendAfter becoming serious, the sexual harassment problem came up again in February and "# DeleteUber" re-burned.

Sexual Harassment Is Causing # DeleteUber To Trend Again
https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgenehuang/2017/02/21/sexual-harasssment-is-causing-deleteuber-to-trend-again/

"January's" # DeleteUber "was a movement calling for account deletion, but this time there is a campaign to appreciate the appraisal of the application with a meaning to widely disseminate the situation further.

Uber haters have a new weapon
http://mashable.com/2017/02/21/uber-app-store-reviews-plummet/

According to Mashable, the evaluation for the latest 30 days in the US App Store is 4,800, of which 5 stars are 642, one is 3941, the star is overwhelmingly low .