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

On Friday, Uber and Google's Waymo self-driving unit announced a settlement in their trade-secrets case. On Friday, Uber and Google's Waymo self-driving unit announced a settlement in their trade-secrets case. Uber has reached a settlement valued at $245 million with Google's self-driving car subsidiary Waymo, in a major trade secrets trial that began Monday. Federal District Judge William Alsup revealed news of the settlement Friday morning in a San Francisco courtroom. Waymo, the company spun off from Google's self-driving project, had accused Uber of poaching its top self-driving car engineer, Anthony Levandowski, who had led Google's efforts on autonomous vehicles since 2011.