"Over the past 18 months, as I’ve been painted into a villainous caricature"

You are right. The transfer of Google confidential files to Uber was a mere accident, they somehow ended up on a USB stick that you lost at Uber and someone at Uber found it and re-used it.

Edit:

I saw this gem: "We are not building technology that tells vehicles how to drive. Instead, our team of engineers is building tech that can learn how to drive the way people do."

For the love of $DEITY, don't build tech that learns how people drive. A lot of people drive like selfish jerks.