Uber denies theft of Google's self-driving technology

Ride-sharing company Uber Technologies has responded to a lawsuit brought against it by Google, denying their allegations of theft relating to the firms’ self-driving technology.

Waymo, formerly Google’s autonomous driving wing, filed the injunction against Uber last month after it claimed that former employee Andrew Levandovski copied the technology for the Uber-owned Otto.

Uber has denied the claims however, with an injunction likely to see all of the company’s self-driving fleet removed from roads in several test cities throughout the US. It said that the accusations were "demonstrably false".

Uber’s legal representatives said the motion to file an injunction was a "misfire" on Google’s side, with "no evidence" that any of the 14,000 files in question ever touched Uber's servers.

The lawyers also suggested Google’s objective with the legal proceedings was simply to stifle Uber’s self-driving operations.

Google and Uber are two of the leading tech firms in the race to develop fully autonomous cars, with both companies already testing vehicles in several states across the US.