Lior Ron is not the co-founder of Uber's self driving unit. Lior Ron is founder of Otto which was acquired by Uber in May, 2016 [1]. Uber started working on self driving car in 2015 by acquiring part of CMU's robotics lab [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lior_Ron_(business_executive) [2] https://www.theverge.com/transportation/2015/5/19/8622831/ub...