(MENAFN) Global taxi technology company Uber, is being sued by Google's subsidiary, the self-driving company Waymo in San Francisco.
Uber is accused of stealing and using trade secrets relating to Lidar, one of the technologies that enables an autonomous car to understand what is happening around it.
Emails presented in court showed Uber's ex-chief executive Travis Kalanick demanding "pounds of flesh" from Waymo, while others are said to involve him saying he wanted to "find the cheat codes".
Uber is expected begin its defense next week, and will not dispute document theft, but instead try to convince the jury it did not use the information in its self-drive experiments.
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