Ex-Google engineer charged in Uber self-driving theft case

By Michael Liedtke, The Associated Press
A former Google engineer was charged Tuesday with stealing closely guarded secrets that he later sold to Uber as the ride-hailing service scrambled to catch up in the high-stakes race to build robotic vehicles.
The indictment filed by the U.S. Attorney’s office in San Jose, is an offshoot of a lawsuit filed in 2017 by Waymo, a self-driving car pioneer spun off from Google. Uber agreed to pay Waymo $245 million to settle the case, but the federal jud