At car secrets trial, Uber decries 'conspiracy theory', Waymo says Uber cheats
Uber [UBER.UL] was either a cheating competitor willing to break the law to win the race to develop self-driving cars, or the victim of an unproven conspiracy theory stitched together by its main rival, Waymo, jurors heard in opening statements of a trade secrets trial on Monday. The first salvos were delivered to a 10-person jury in San Francisco federal court in a civil lawsuit that could help determine who emerges in the forefront of the autonomous car business nearly a year after Alphabet Inc’s self-driving car unit Waymo sued rival Uber Technologies Inc. The case hinges on whether ride-hailing firm Uber used apparent trade secrets to advance its autonomous vehicle program.
