Uber Scores a Win, But Its Brawl With Waymo Ain't Over Yet

In a significant victory for Uber amidst a year of suck, a California district court judge declined to halt the company's self-driving car program Monday morning. Judge William Alsup partly denied and partly granted a request for preliminary injunction from Google self-driving car spinoff Waymo, which alleges a former employee made off with its technology and used it to accelerate's Uber efforts. Uber does not have to stop self-driving testing, Alsup decreed. But the employee in question, engineer Anthony Levandowski, does have to stop all work on Uber's lidar technology until the lawsuit concludes. "We welcome the order to prohibit Uber's use of stolen documents containing trade secrets developed by Waymo through years of research, and to formally bar Mr. Levandowski from working on the technology," says a Waymo spokesperson.