#UberWaymo has begun. Here's what's at stake:https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/5/16955312/uber-waymo-trial-self-driving-cars-preview …
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ALSUP: This is unconscionable that the law firms take up this much space. The reason the public is not in here is that you've failed me once again.
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Laughter in the overflow room, where we are not subject to the steely gaze and terrifying silence of Judge Alsup's courtroom
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(I doubt I will be in the overflow room for the entirety of the trial but it really is not the worst place to be)
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I haven't been here for the hearings but from the tenor of the transcripts and orders and Alsup's tone just now, it really sounds like he wants to strangle everyone who's involved
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Some housekeeping matters: first, the issue of reasonable royalties (evidence will not be bifurcated). More importantly, Judge Alsup is mad about the "rat's nest of wiring" in his courtroom
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ALSUP: I’m not going to name any names, but someone with a very important witness asked for a private room. No. You don’t get a private room just because you’re famous.
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Another housekeeping matter: ALSUP: What *is* Ottomotto?
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Ottomotto, says Uber, is owned indirectly by Uber through a holding company. ALSUP: So if the jury decides a billion dollar verdict against Ottomotto, Uber’s going to pay that? UBER: Well, we hope that doesn't matter but yes.
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Lawyers are arguing over whether certain video evidence is allowed, Alsup calls it "Soviet-style negotiating," at this point my read is that he's enjoying dunking on them because he so rarely gets cases where he can dunk on everyone without feeling bad about punching down
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Both sides are now introducing themselves for the record and it's like a basketball team's worth of lawyers on both sides
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sorry, internet is a little laggy, no doubt from so many reporters connecting to it -- my tweets aren't guaranteed to be real-time. Alsup now giving preliminary instruction to jury, explaining fact/law and warning them not to read about the case online
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WAYMO: Playing fair wasn’t working because Google was way too far ahead. Winning was more important than obeying the law.
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Internal email shows Kalanick referring to a "cheat code," Verhoeven explains that a cheat code lets you skip a level in a video game (lol) and says Levandowski was supposed to help Uber leapfrog ahead of Google (like a cheat code)
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Technical difficulties. WAYMO: I have a series of slides here. I’d like to start with a more detailed presentation … ALSUP: Is it showing up in the jury box? WAYMO: It is, but it isn't in ours. ALSUP: And not mine either.
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All fixed now and we're starting off with the Google fairy tale of how Brin and Page innovated the shit out of the world etc
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Now we're looking at a demo video. "First car you can see. There’s no one there. It’s driving itself."
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"No one’s driving. No one’s sitting in the front seat. Working perfectly." lol
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Now they're explaining how self-driving cars are going to improve road safety, give new mobility options to old people, and "combat climate change" lol
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Now explaining LiDAR. There's a picture of the Grizzly Bear LiDAR on the screen. "It spins really fast and shoots out thousands and thousands of points of infrared lasers."
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AND NOW THE DRAMATIS PERSONAE. Ominous black and white photo of Google engineers with only Anthony Levandowski in color.
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And here come the damning emails! First a quote from Travis Kalanick in Bloomberg Businessweek, where he says that if they don't catch up to Google in autonomous cars, "we will be out of business."
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John Bares email: "Team really strained on trying to figure out best sensor"
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Holden email: "we started from a huge gap with G, and I think we’ve all been sobered by how hard it is to close that gap, even with exceptional effort… we should double down on laser."
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And now, a Google Calendar invite for a meeting between Levandowski, Lior Ron, and Uber on Dec 11, 2015, shown next to a machine forensic record that Levandowski downloaded 14k Waymo files on Dec 12.
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Verhoeven says there's evidence that Levandowski and Ron covered their digital tracks with the nefarious software known as... Slack and iMessage
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Bares writes some embarrassing emails and meeting notes! In one 2015 meeting: TK what we want - Source - All of their data - Tagging - Road map - Pound of flesh - IP
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Bares email: "I’m in SF working on something I can’t talk about (wonderful, huh). I am trying to SWAG a dream case long range laser.
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