High-stakes trial between Uber and Google's self-driving car unit kicks off in San Francisco

Introduction

Date: 5 February 2018. Duration: 14:16

MLex reporters Amy Miller and Mike Swift talked about the scheduled Feb. 5 start of the high stakes trial between Uber Technologies and Waymo over whether an Uber engineer stole 14,000 digital files containing proprietary self-driving car technology, as well as about the colorful Judge William Alsup, who will preside over the trial in San Francisco.

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