Controversial engineer: I travelled over 3,000 miles in a self-driving car

Anthony Levandowski, involved in the Uber-Waymo lawsuit, launches automated driving system with hands-free trip across US

Anthony Levandowski, the controversial engineer at the heart of a lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, claims to have built an autonomous car that drove from San Francisco to New York without any human intervention.

The 3,099-mile journey started on 26 October on the Golden Gate Bridge, and finished nearly four days later on the George Washington Bridge in Manhattan.

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