https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/27/ex-waymo-engineer-who-went-to-uber-faces-criminal-charges/ > Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer at the center of the battle between Uber and Waymo over self-driving technology, is facing federal criminal charges of trade-secrets theft. > Levandowski, a founding member of Google’s self-driving project, downloaded engineering, manufacturing and business files related to Google’s custom lidar and self-driving car technology, according to the indictment unsealed Monday.