SAN FRANCISCO — Hoping to avoid a court order that would hobble its driverless car division, Uber Technologies Inc. on Friday told a federal judge that top engineer Anthony Levandowski is no longer heading that unit.

Uber has recused Levandowski “from all LiDAR development,” the company’s lawyers at Morrison & Foerster and Boies Schiller Flexner said in a court filing, referring to a technology that helps detect a car’s surroundings. They added that Uber does “not oppose an order to that effect pending trial.”

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