Waymo urges judge to bar Uber engineer from robocar project

Anthony Levandowski had left Alphabet to launch his own self-driving start-up Otto

Waymo says it’s uncovered new evidence that Uber Technologies took and copied its trade secrets and urged a judge to bar the head of the ride-hailing company’s driverless car programme from continuing to work on the project.

Alphabet’s Waymo made the request Friday as a federal judge weighs whether to issue a court order that may impede Uber in the race to market autonomous-driving vehicles. US District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco said last month that Waymo has a strong case that its former engineer, Anthony Levandowski, downloaded thousands of confidential files before he left the company to launch his