{"id":57395,"date":"2017-05-16T03:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T10:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/judge-blocks-top-uber-engineer-from-working-on-key-self-driving-technology-amid-battle-with-alphabet"},"modified":"2017-05-20T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T16:01:00","slug":"judge-blocks-top-uber-engineer-from-working-on-key-self-driving-technology-amid-battle-with-alphabet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/judge-blocks-top-uber-engineer-from-working-on-key-self-driving-technology-amid-battle-with-alphabet","title":{"rendered":"Judge blocks top Uber engineer from working on key self-driving technology amid battle with Alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/judge-blocks-top-uber-engineer-from-working-on-key-self-driving-technology-amid-battle-with-alphabet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this doesnt negatively effect the self driving truck.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>One of Uber\u2019s top engineers will no longer be able to work on a key self-driving car technology, a federal judge ordered, adding a new hurdle in the ride-hailing company\u2019s race to get to market.<\/p>\n<p>Uber will be able to continue working on its self-driving car technology, the judge said, but embattled engineer Anthony Levandowski must be removed from any work relating to a key technology called LIDAR, which helps cars \u201csee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" data-gdsid=\"19004\" data-inline-quote-symbol=\"GOOGL\" href=\"http:\/\/data.cnbc.com\/quotes\/GOOGL\" target=\"_self\">Alphabet\u2019s<\/a> self-driving car unit, Waymo, has sued Uber, claiming that the ride-hailing start-up is <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/waymo\/a-note-on-our-lawsuit-against-otto-and-uber-86f4f98902a1\" title=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/waymo\/a-note-on-our-lawsuit-against-otto-and-uber-86f4f98902a1\" target=\"_self\">using key parts of<\/a> Waymo\u2019s <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/waymo\/a-note-on-our-lawsuit-against-otto-and-uber-86f4f98902a1\" title=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/waymo\/a-note-on-our-lawsuit-against-otto-and-uber-86f4f98902a1\" target=\"_self\">self-driving technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/05\/15\/injunction-blocks-ubers-anthony-levandowski-from-working-on-lidar-in-waymo-suit.html?_source=FacebookINT&__source=Facebook\">http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/05\/15\/injunction-blocks-ubers-antho...e=Facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully this doesnt negatively effect the self driving truck. One of Uber\u2019s top engineers will no longer be able to work on a key self-driving car technology, a federal judge ordered, adding a new hurdle in the ride-hailing company\u2019s race to get to market. Uber will be able to continue working on its self-driving car [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57542,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57395\/revisions\/57542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}