How Did Uber Conflict with Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics

question 103

Multiple Choice

How did Uber conflict with Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) ?

• A) Uber promised a large donation to NREC but then reneged on the offer when NREC would not provide Uber with researchers.
• B) Uber poached entire NREC research teams with signing bonuses, twice the salaries, and stock options, thereby threatening the future of NREC.
• C) Uber allegedly stole ideas from the NREC research team and then claimed that these ideas were generated by their own researchers.
• D) Uber bribed NREC officials to give permission for building an extension to the NREC facility that focuses solely on Uber research.

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