Ex-Google self-driving engineer secretly collaborated with competitors, suit says

New details emerge in Google lawsuit that alleges former employee Anthony Levandowski plotted to steal trade secrets and take them to Uber

A former Google employee secretly collaborated with competing self-driving car companies for years before allegedly stealing trade secrets and bringing the proprietary technology to Uber, according to a new court filing.

Anthony Levandowski - now head of Uber's self-driving program and a key player in Google's high-profile intellectual property lawsuit against Uber - collected $120m in "incentive payments" from Google, according to the claim, "all while he was breaching his obligations to Google and building a company that would compete with Google". The filing also alleges that while at Google, he helped the company investigate one of two competing firms with which he was involved.