Ambitious Engineer at Center of Colossal Fight Between Google and Uber

How Anthony Levandowski went from star of Google's self-driving car team to its greatest foe.

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In 2013, Anthony Levandowski was the star of Google's self-driving car project. The tall, swaggering engineer was featured in a long New Yorker story about the search engine willing the impossible technology into reality.

Less than four years later, he is Google's enemy number one.