After Uber suit, Waymo faces bigger challenges
It has to figure out a business model to make money from years of research, while former engineers are forming a good part of its competition
San Francisco
NEARLY a year after accusing Uber of stealing its driverless car technology, Waymo agreed on Friday to settle a closely watched lawsuit filed against the ride-hailing company.
Now for Waymo, which grew out of Google's seminal autonomous vehicle project and is nearly a decade into an effort that aims to change the very nature of transportation, a much-bigger fight looms outside the courtroom.
