You held on too long, Uber. Still your mess.
Mr. Levandowski’s termination, effective immediately, comes as a result of his involvement in a legal battle between Uber and Waymo, the self-driving technology unit spun out of Google last year. Waymo claims that Uber is using trade secrets stolen from Google to develop Uber’s self-driving vehicles, a plan aided by Mr. Levandowski, a former longtime Google employee.
Source: Uber Fires Former Google Engineer at Heart of Self-Driving Dispute – The New York Times