In the past month, the San Francisco ride-hailing firm faced a customer boycott and sexual harassment allegations, which have devastated employee morale and steered users away from the service. Then it was slapped with a lawsuit Thursday, in which Waymo — Google’s self-driving car project — alleged theft of trade secrets. But the Waymo lawsuit may prove the biggest of the company’s many woes. Levandowski now heads Uber’s self-driving car division. “One of the biggest hurdles with self-driving cars is getting the individual in the vehicle for the first time,” said Grayson Brulte, an autonomous vehicle expert and consultant.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 25, 2017 00:29 UTC