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it's one of Silicon Valley's most anticipated court cases as to tech giant's fight over self-driving car secrets wham-o is the self-driving car division of Google's parent company alphabet and it's suing uber the trial started today in federal court in San Francisco the complaint alleges of former Google employees stole 14 thousand files full of trade secrets that employee Anthony Levin douse key then founded his own company that was soon acquired by uber whammo first filed a suit against uber in February 2017 since then many salacious details about uber x' inner workings of surfaced including alleged use of self-destructing messaging apps and wiretapping there's ubermann that means they get to continue developing their self-driving car program as planned if way Moe ends there may be some limits on what uber can do in its self-driving car program in opening statements Wayne Moe's lawyer said ubers former CEO wanted to win at all costs he likened ubers behavior to playing a video game looking for so-called cheat codes to get to the next level Uber's lawyer denied the allegations and said the 14,000 stolen files in question were unimportance then he went on to compare uber to the Golden State Warriors with how the company acquired talent like basketball star Kevin Durant he said quote they thought that Kevin Durant was Anthony Levin Dow ski tech heavy hitters like former uber CEO Travis kalanick and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are among the witnesses that could be called during the trial but first to testify was way most CEO John krafchick who said after Levin Dow ski quit Google he no longer considered him a friend but an enemy the case is expected to last three weeks