The allegations are spicy, the insinuations downright fiery. In a lawsuit filed last month in San Francisco, Google's autonomous vehicle spinoff Waymo accuses former engineer Anthony Levandowski of stealing 14,000 pages of intellectual property and trade secrets, then using them to launch his robotruck startup, Otto. Just four months later, Uber acquired Otto for a reported $680 million--and that, Waymo alleges, is how the ride-hailing giant started using Google's vital circuit board and sensor setup in its own self-driving cars. Some folks, reading between the lines of the lawsuit, see a conspiracy: Perhaps Uber directly conspired with Levandowski to steal Google's self-driving secrets. 'It's so dangerous to be hiring a very knowledgeable former employee of another company and put him in a position in your company to do the same thing.'