On Dec. 13, an employee at Waymo, a self-driving startup founded by Google, was accidentally copied on an email from one of its vendors. The email, which a Waymo employee was copied on, was titled OTTO FILES and its recipients included an email alias indicating that the thread was a discussion among members of the vendor’s “Uber” team. Levandowski” is Anthony Levandowski, a former Waymo engineer now at the center of a brewing showdown between Google and Uber. “I want to be the one to provide that.” All of which is to say: Levandowski brought considerable knowledge to Uber, Waymo files or no. ANGELO MERENDINO/AFP via Getty Images The cameras on a pilot model of an Uber self-driving car are displayed at the Uber Advanced Technologies Center on Sept. 13, 2016, in Pittsburgh.

Source: Huffington Post March 16, 2017 19:18 UTC