Uber fired Anthony Levandowski. Now he's back with a self-driving truck startup.

A name that came up often during the Uber v. Waymo trade secrets trial is back in the headlines: Anthony Levandowski.

The former Google-engineer-turned-autonomous-truck-startup-founder-turned-Uber-self-driving-executive announced his latest startup, Pronto. Its "intelligent driving" system for commercial trucks, Copilot, was released Tuesday. It's similar to Tesla's Autopilot, featuring Level 2 autonomous features that require a fully attentive and alert driver, but it's for truckers.

Levandowski worked for Google's Waymo before he left to start his self-driving truck company, Otto, which was almost immediately purchased by Uber. He was then fired from Uber after Waymo said he stole proprietary information about self-driving tech like LiDAR, which uses light and lasers to help vehicles "see." Levandowski refused to cooperate with the investigation leading up to the trial, and Uber ended its driverless truck testing this summer. Read more...

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