Uber Self Driving Project Poised To Implode Following Criminal Charges

A judge said he’s inclined to slap an order on Uber Technologies Inc. that may impede its self-driving car program after being told its director won’t testify because he faces possible criminal action for allegedly stealing Alphabet Inc.’s trade secrets.

A lawyer for Anthony Levandowski, who left Alphabet’s Waymo unit last year and is now head of Uber’s driverless car project, told a San Francisco federal judge Wednesday the engineer would be asserting his rights under the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment, protecting a person from incriminating himself, according to a transcript of the closed-door court hearing.

mre30 - 3/31/2017 11:41:29 AM

+1 Boost

I really think that Uber is on a path to become the 'MySpace' of this current generation of tech services companies.

It may have been the first to this space of "arranging" transactions between consumers and contractors, but between its management style, some questionable battles it has chosen to fight, and its legal problems, I suspect it was start to shrivel from here on out.

Question - who in this space will be the 'Facebook' that eclipses Uber's positioning as 'MySpace'?