Google's Self-driving Cars Caused Dozen Accidents But No One Knew About Them

In February 2017, Waymo sued Uber alleging theft of trade secrets related to Lidar (Waymo is the company which is developing Google’s self- driving project). Google claimed that Anthony Levandowski - One of the top engineers who helped design self-driving cars for Google left and stole 14,000 trade secret files.

Uber then hired this employee to develop its self-driving car program. So Google really thinks that he took all of their technology and brought it to Uber.

According to the release of the New York Times report, Google's self-driving cars have been involved in over ten accidents, including at least three serious ones. And one of the most remarkable was the accidents involved in Levandowski.

As reported by The New Yorker, when Levandowski modified the test cars’ software along with Google executive Isaac Taylor, he caused an accident. And as a result, the accident seriously injured his coworkers' spine so badly that he eventually required multiple surgeries.

Because the company did not inform these to the authorities, all are not known until recently. Since 2014, California regulations required the company to"

This amending existing regulation also relating to testing of vehicles to include vehicles that do not require the presence of a driver and adopting new regulations relating to the deployment of autonomous vehicles.

On The New Yorker, Levandowski says safety wasn't his primary concern when developing the car. In his view, he considered that innovative must surpass safety: 

On the other hand, in a written statement to CNBC, a spokesperson at Waymo responded: