Waymo Asks Court to Halt Uber's Self-Driving CarsUber allegedly stole technology from Google's self-driving car project, now called Waymo.

Waymo,接管了google的字母表的子公司le's self-driving car project,alleged last monththat Uber stole its technology. Now it wants a court to force Uber to suspend its own self-driving research.

Waymo's lawyers filed several new documents on Friday in the company's case against Uber and formally asked the judge to block Uber from operating its autonomous vehicles,The Vergereports. Waymo's lawsuit alleges that former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski downloaded more than 14,000 proprietary design files -- 9.7GB worth of data -- for a LiDAR system in late 2015 before he left the company to found Otto, which Uber later acquired.

Among Friday's filings are engineer testimonies that appear to bolster Waymo's claim that Otto's LiDAR systems were stolen from Google. One Google forensic engineer offered sworn testimony that Levandowski downloaded the files to his personal laptop, and another engineer recalled Levandowski telling her before he left Google that he wanted to start his own self-driving car company using the existing LiDAR designs, according toThe Verge.

Based on that testimony, Waymo said, Uber should be required to shut down the parts of its research that use the LiDAR designs.

"Given the strong evidence we have, we are asking the court step in to protect intellectual property developed by our engineers over thousands of hours and to prevent any use of that stolen IP," a Waymo spokesperson toldThe Verge.

An Uber spokesperson toldPCMagthat the company was reviewing Friday's filings. In a statement after the lawsuit was filed in late February, Uber described the claims as baseless and said that it would "look forward to vigorously defending against them in court."

Uber self-driving taxis are currently on the road inPittsburghandTempe, Ariz. The company is alsotrying to secure a permitin California after beingkicked outof San Francisco for launching there without one.