When I met him in San Francisco this week, 22-year-old Austin Russell couldn’t help but smile when I mentioned the acrimonious legal battle between Uber and Alphabet’s self-driving car unit, Waymo. Waymo says a top engineer took secret plans for lidar sensors, which map the world in 3-D using lasers, to the ride-sharing company. Talk of the suit makes Russell grin because he says it shows the new lidar sensor his startup has spent five
College dropout says he’s cracked the crucial component for self-driving cars
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