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Block Uber's self-driving car project, Waymo asks federal court

Waymo claimed that Uber could be using stolen technology

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At the moment, Uber’s brand is in tatters. It has weathered a long series of scandals and controversies stemming from its aggressive fight against regulators and competitors. <b>(Photo: Reuters)<b>

Daisuke Wakabayashi San Francisco
Waymo, the self-driving car business spun out of Google’s parent company last year, has asked a federal court to block Uber’s work on a competing self-driving vehicle that Waymo claimed could be using stolen technology.

Waymo also filed testimony from employees and a Google security engineer describing how Anthony Levandowski, a former Google executive, discussed Uber’s interest in the technology and systematically stole proprietary company documents. In February 2016, Levandowski left to start his own self-driving truck company, Otto. He sold it to Uber for $680 million six months later.

Waymo sued Uber last month, accusing the ride-hailing company of colluding with