Editing Anthony Levandowski (section)

=== Waymo and Otto ===
{{Main|Waymo}}
In 2009, Levandowski and Thrun co-founded Google's self-driving car project Chauffeur, now known as Waymo. Over the next two years, Levandowski's 510 Systems built five additional self-driving Priuses for Google.<ref name="Harris Wired profile" /> In 2011, Levandowski lobbied [[Nevada]] to allow the testing of autonomous vehicles. In May 2012, the Las Vegas [[Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles|DMV]] performed the first self-driving car test with [[Chris Urmson]] in the driver's seat and Anthony Levandowski in the passenger seat. The car passed the test.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Full Page Reload|url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-googles-autonomous-car-passed-the-first-us-state-selfdriving-test|access-date=2020-06-17|website=IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News|date=September 10, 2014|language=en}}</ref> Levandowski continued to work as a technical lead on Google's self-driving car project alongside [[Chris Urmson]], Dmitri Dolgov, and Mike Montemerlo until January 2016, when he left to launch [[Otto (company)|Otto]]. In addition to Project Chauffeur, Levandowski's contributions to Google include work on Street View, Cardboard, Telepresence, Ground Truth, Oblique Aerial Imagery, and Tiramisu.<ref name="Harris Wired profile" /> Levandowski allegedly downloaded 9.7 GB of Waymo's confidential files before resigning to found Otto.

Otto was founded in January 2016 by Levandowski, Lior Ron, Claire Delaunay, and Don Burnette. Eleven Google employees also joined them.<ref name=":6" /> Otto retrofitted [[Semi-trailer truck|big rig]] trucks with self-driving kits.<ref name="Medium post announcing Otto">{{cite web|title=Introducing Otto, the startup rethinking commercial trucking|url=https://blog.ot.to/introducing-otto-the-startup-rethinking-commercial-trucking-cfdc502ef452|website=Medium|date=May 17, 2016|publisher=Otto|access-date=29 September 2017}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="Wired How Otto defied Nevada">{{cite magazine|last1=Harris|first1=Mark|title=How Otto defied Nevada and scored a $680m payout from Uber|url=https://www.wired.com/2016/11/how-otto-defied-nevada-and-scored-a-680-million-payout-from-uber/ |magazine=Wired|date=November 28, 2016|access-date=29 September 2017}}</ref><ref name="Harris How my public records request">{{cite magazine|last1=Harris|first1=Mark|title=How my public records request triggered Waymo's self-driving car lawsuit|url=https://www.wired.com/2017/02/how-my-public-records-request-triggered-waymos-self-driving-car-lawsuit/|magazine=Wired|date=February 27, 2017|access-date=29 September 2017}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/technology/want-to-buy-a-self-driving-car-trucks-may-come-first.html|title=Want to Buy a Self-Driving Car? Big-Rig Trucks May Come First|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 17, 2016|access-date=13 September 2016|last1=Markoff|first1=John}}</ref> Levandowski stated he left Google because he, "was eager to commercialize a self-driving vehicle as quickly as possible."<ref name="Wired How Otto defied Nevada" /> Otto was acquired by [[Uber]] in late July 2016, at which point Levandowski assumed leadership of Uber's driverless car operation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/18/uber-acquires-otto-to-lead-ubers-self-driving-car-effort-report-says/|title=Uber acquires Otto to lead Uber's self-driving car effort|work=TechCrunch|date=August 18, 2016 |access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-08-18/uber-s-first-self-driving-fleet-arrives-in-pittsburgh-this-month-is06r7on|title= Uber's First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month|newspaper= Bloomberg.com|date= August 18, 2016|publisher=Bloomberg Businessweek|access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref> ln May 2017 Levandowski was fired from Uber after Waymo and Google charged he had raided Waymo's design server.  In July 2018  Uber's autonomous trucking program was shut down.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Uber Parks Its Self-Driving Truck Project, Saying It Will Push For Autonomous Cars|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/07/31/634331593/uber-parks-its-self-driving-truck-project-saying-it-will-push-for-autonomous-car|access-date=2020-06-18|website=NPR.org|date=July 31, 2018|language=en|last1=Chappell|first1=Bill}}</ref>

In 2015, Levandowski established a [[religious organisation]] called [[Way of the Future]] with the stated intention of creating a god with "[[Christian morality|Christian morals]]" through [[artificial intelligence]].<ref name="Harris Wired profile2">{{cite magazine |last1=Harris |first1=Mark |date=27 August 2017 |title=God Is a Bot, and Anthony Levandowski Is His Messenger |url=https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levandowski-is-his-messenger/ |accessdate=29 September 2017 |magazine=Wired}}</ref> He dissolved the organization in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Korosec |first=Kirsten |date=2021-02-18 |title=Anthony Levandowski closes his Church of AI |url=https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/18/anthony-levandowski-closes-his-church-of-ai/ |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}</ref>