'We've got to start calling Elon Musk on his s***': Uber CEO urged to tackle rival over self-driving car claims

The former engineer at the centre of Uber's self-driving car legal troubles has urged ex-Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick to criticise Tesla's Elon Musk and several of his claims about autonomous vehicles. Anthony Levandowski, whom Uber fired in May, sent a text to Kalanick in September that criticised Musk for saying Tesla was unlikely to use lidar sensors for its cars. The message was among those released as part of the ongoing lawsuit against Uber by Alphabet's Waymo, which has accused Levandowski of stealing trade secrets. "We've got to start calling Elon on his shit," Levandowski wrote in the texts, which were turned over by lawyers for Kalanick. "I'm not on social media but let's start'faketesla' and start give physics lessons about stupid shit Elon says like this." Weeks before the text messages, Tesla unveiled an update to its Autopilot driver-assistance system that uses radar and a GPS database to guide its vehicles.