The Self-Driving Car Fight Between Google and Uber
25 February 2017 |
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Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo accuses several employees of Otto, a self-driving startup Uber acquired in August for $680 million, of lifting technical information from Google’s autonomous car project.
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