It wasn’t all that long ago that Google’s Waymo self-driving car division and Uber were in a legal dispute over intellectual rights. Now, however, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi claims Uber and Waymo are discussing a partnership, Reuters reports. Speaking at Recode’s Code Conference of technology leaders this week in California, Khosrowshahi said the relationship between the two companies was “getting better.” The change occurred since Uber and Waymo settled the lawsuit and Uber agreed to pay $245 million in company shares. Waymo filed suit against Uber last year, stating that a former Waymo engineer who left the company to head up Uber’s self-driving efforts transferred thousands of Waymo’s proprietary, confidential documents. Calling Waymo an “incredible technology provider,” Reuters reported, Khosrowshahi said it would be good to have the Waymo technology on Uber’s network. Khosrowshahi hedged his hopes, however, “We’re having discussions with Waymo. If something happens, great. If not, we can live with that, too,” he said. Waymo did not comment on the Uber CEO’s statements. It continues to develop its own fleet of autonomous vehicles and announced at Google I/O that its self-driving cars logged more than 5 million miles on public thoroughfares through February. Waymo also has an ongoing partnership with Lyft,… Read full this story
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