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Google Uber Fight Fallout: Uber's Self-Driving Car Project Chief Steps Down
The head of Uber's self-driving chief has stepped aside from his role at company as Uber defends itself against charges filed by Google.
Uber's Anthony Levandowski, the head of the app-based ridesharing service's self-driving car division has stepped down from his role as the company faces a lawsuit from his previous employers Google.
According to the Associated Press, Anthony Levandowski, who joined Uber from Google last year informed Uber employees of his decision in an email on Thursday (April 27).
Levandowski will remain at Uber but he will no longer oversee the company's self-driving project and has told employees to keep him out of any discussions about Uber's work on its lidar system.
Google claims that Levandowski illegally downloaded its blueprints for lidar before he went on to found the self-driving truck company, Otto. Levandowski later sold Otto to Uber for $680 million and joined the app-based ridesharing service.
The deal also saw most of Otto's employees join Uber's Advanced Technologies Group, that is in charge of building autonomous cars.
A judge will decide on May 3, whether or not Google's Waymo division's (which is in charge of the search engine giant's autonomous car project) request for a temporary injunction that would effectively halt Uber's R&D efforts into autonomous cars and leave it behind in the race towards self-driving vehicles.
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