Fury Road: the driverless future – did Uber 'Google it'?

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The Loadstar recently spent the best part of week visiting some of the new freight tech start-ups in Silicon Valley. A recurring topic of conversation was Google’s enormous lawsuit against Uber, alleging that the taxi app had, basically, stolen Google’s self-driving-vehicle research. The evidence against Uber, the driverless truck firm Otto and its founder (and former Google employee) Anthony Levandowski looks particularly damning. “The thing about Google is that it is not a litigious company,” one source told The Loadstar, ...