"The hiring of Mr. Singhal, who left Google last year, is a coup for Uber, which has publicly stated its intention to fight Google's substantial head start in autonomous-vehicle research."
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/21/uber-hires-googles-former-head-of-search-stoking-a-rivalry.html
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Uber just loves making enemies right and left!
Remember when Uber poached a bunch of engineers from Carnegie Melon after they claimed they wanted to work together with them?!
Maybe Uber's navigation will actually start to work correctly...