While I do respect the right to protect your IP, Uber is 10 times smaller company than Google. The lawsuit is about technology that can potentially save thousands of lives and probably will be made open source in few years anyway.
The fact that you can steal the technology without any consequences will drastically slow down the development of such technology, since noone would be willing to invest a lot of money into something that can be easily stolen. And will potentially cost more lives in the long term.
> And will potentially cost more lives in the long term.
The now unemployable portion of society involved in transportation that will be replaced by self driving robots are going to potentially cost more lives in the long term.
