Uber paid Google $9.7 million to settle legal beef in the tangled self-driving car fight
Uber Freight chief Lior Ron at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills in 2017.Another piece of the tangled legal fight sparked by Uber’s attempt to catch up to Google’s self-driving car program has been resolved, with the rideshare giant paying Google nearly $10 million to settle accusations that Uber executive Lior Ron improperly recruited Google engineers.
Waymo, the commercial successor to Google’s Self-Driving Car Project, had claimed that Ron and Anthony Levandowski violated contract agreements for, among other things, convincing numerous Google employees to join them at Uber’s rival self-driving program after they left Google in January 2016. Waymo won a, though financial terms weren’t revealed at that time.
In total, Uber paid $9.7 million on Ron’s behalf this month, based on a copy of settlement terms reviewed by. The amount includes more than $7.7 million of attorneys’ fees and court costs, and is well above last year’s initial determination by arbitrators that Ron should repay Google about $1 million. Arbitrators initially recommended that Levandowski, who is also, should reimburse Google $127 million. Details of arbitrators’ judgement with regard to Levandowski haven’t been revealed.
The settlement for Ron, who leads the Uber Freight business, doesn’t confirm or deny Google’s contract violation claims. Levandowski continues to fight them, his attorney says. The settlement is a holdover from a drama-filled period in which Uber cofounder and former CEO Travis Kalanick and Levandowski joined forces to rapidly match Waymo’s self-driving car expertise. Kalanick saw robo-taxis that don’t need human drivers as the long-term guarantee of profitability for his rideshare business and bought Otto, the driverless truck startup Levandowski and Ron created after they left Google, for an estimated $680 million in August 2016.
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