Google Has Spent At Least 1. Billion On Self Driving Car Tech Report. Billions are being spent on developing self driving cars, as seen in megadeals like General Motors dumping 1 billion into Cruise Automation, or Intel paying 1. Mobileye. Now, thanks to an ongoing lawsuit between Googles self driving car project and Uber, we now know how much Google has spent on developing autonomous tech at least 1. IEEE Spectrum. Google is currently locked in a bitter legal fight with Uber over whether an engineer at the former Read more The figure emerged as a result of Google failing to redact it in a deposition from Shawn Bananzadeh, a financial analyst at Waymo. Heres more from Spectrum When asked by an Uber lawyer how an estimate for developing one of the trade secrets, number 9. Bananzadeh replied My understanding is that it is a cost that captures the entire program spend from inception to the period of time where it stops. He later clarified that meant from 2. Sebastian Thrun got the go ahead for the project from Larry Page, to the end of 2. Throughout Bananzadehs deposition, every dollar amount was redacted to protect Waymos confidential commercial information. Every time, that is, except in the Uber lawyers very next question The calculation that was the basis of the 1. Trade Secret 9. 0 is the same calculation that was done for Trade Secret 2 and Trade Secret 2. Its unclear if the figure included salaries or incentives, and its hard to imagine it takes that into account Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer at the center of the Uber suit, earned a 1. Waymo didnt immediately respond to a request for comment. Though its comparatively on par with others in the fieldUber, for its part, spent 6. Levandowskis self driving truck startup OttoWaymos considered at the front of the pack in the self driving car race. The 1. 1 billion figure is almost certainly something it didnt want uncovered, but with a ferocious number of legal briefs being filed in the Uber case, just a month ahead before its trial is supposed to begin, its not exactly a surprise that a redaction is missed once in awhile. Elin Nordegren on this page. Search the worlds most comprehensive index of fulltext books. My library. The figure emerged as a result of Google failing to redact it in a deposition from Shawn Bananzadeh, a financial analyst at Waymo. Heres more from Spectrum When. Go is played on a grid of black lines usually 1919. Game pieces, called stones, are played on the lines intersections. The chapter presents a comprehensive account on the flurry of research works engulfing the utility of clay and Cbased polymeric nanocomposites, both the synthetic. Sardu, master of the Theatre of the Macabre, and his assistant Ralphus run a show in which, under the guise of magic. Even more Account Options. Sign in Search settings.