A U.S. district judge wants to determine why Uber failed to turn over some explosive evidence as it battled a lawsuit alleging it stole self-driving car secrets.
Judge William Alsup, overseeing the case brought against Uber by Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google parent company Alphabet, said Uber could have innocently overlooked the evidence. But if he finds that Uber engaged in “systematic concealment of evidence,” Alsup plans to tell the jury “about these problems, all of Uber’s making,” he said at a hearing on Dec. 4 in federal court in San Francisco.
