Self-driving startup Pronto is finding its way after founder Anthony Levandowski's indictment.
Self-driving start-up Pronto has said it will deliver its flagship product to customers this year despite being thrown into crisis last Tuesday when Anthony Levandowski, its founder and chief executive, was charged on 33 counts of theft or attempted theft from Google.
“Is it more compelling to just take the driver out of vehicle? Clearly,” Miller said. “The issue is, the technology is not there yet.”Allegations against Levandowski first emerged in 2017 when Waymo — which started life as Google’s self-driving car project — sued his then employer, Uber, claiming that he had stolen information months before his departure. Uber paid roughly $250 million in shares to settle. Levandowski has always denied the charges.
Miller declined to comment on the merits. “I’m not focused on anything but delivering our product and trying to make the road safer,” he said.The indictment has fueled speculation that Pronto’s days could be numbered, resulting in a flight of talent or potential funding issues, as Levandowski is probably a key investor himself.
Miller is a first-time chief executive but has experience in the field dating back to 2007, when he worked alongside Levandowski on Google Street View, the mapping system once described by Google’s head of research as the “secret sauce” enabling it to gain an early edge in the quest to build self-driving cars.
Miller has built a reputation for prioritizing safety. When he departed Uber in March 2018, he wrote a scathing email to the team calling on them to standardize better practices and reduce the testing fleet of autonomous vehicles by 85 percent. Five days later, a pedestrian was killed by one of Uber’s self-driving SUVs.
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