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Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski, was charged Tuesday with stealing closely guarded secrets before he signed on with Uber, which was scrambling to catch up in the high-stakes race to build robotic vehicles.

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Former Uber Engineer Charged With 33 Counts Of Trade-Secret Theft

9:19pm August 27, 2019

by Vanessa Romo

Anthony Levandowski could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted of stealing thousands of files on Google's self-driving car project. After leaving Google, he went to work for its rival, Uber.

Waymo self-driving cars will be used to chauffeur "early riders" to and from their Walmart online grocery pickup location.

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Walmart To Test Self-Driving Cars For Grocery Pickup Service

5:23pm July 25, 2018

by Cameron Jenkins

Some customers in the Phoenix metro area will be able to use a driverless shuttle service to pick up groceries at Walmart — if they purchase them online.

An Uber driverless car heads out for a test drive in San Francisco in December 2016, the same month that the company halted testing there and moved it to Arizona.

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Arizona Governor Helped Make State 'Wild West' For Driverless Cars

10:35am March 20, 2018

by Scott Neuman

Three years ago, Gov. Doug Ducey embarked on a plan to lure companies experimenting with driverless vehicle technology to the state and in 2016, he lured Uber away from neighboring California.

An Uber driverless Ford Fusion drives in Pittsburgh in 2016. On Friday, Uber and Google's Waymo self-driving unit announced a settlement in their trade secrets case.

Uber, Google's Waymo Settle Case Over Trade Secrets For Self-Driving Cars

3:53pm February 09, 2018

by Ian Wren

Representatives for both companies confirmed they reached a settlement valued at $245 million, ending a week of courtroom drama. Google had accused Uber of poaching its top self-driving engineer.