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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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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Holden email: "Laser is the sauce (AL laser ends up being critical to AV success, no clear substitute)"
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Every time AL had a meeting with Uber, shortly after, he accessed Waymo files (he was working at Waymo tho?)
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Verhoeven pressing hard on AL accessing a file called "Chauffeur TL weekly updates - Q4 2015” which he says is "the file that’s the entire plan for the project" with all of the technological details for every single area of expertise
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More Uber meeting notes. TK recorded as saying: “This is all about winning. To win we have to cross the finish line first, losing is not an option."
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In an April 2016 board presentation, Uber was going to spend $592 million on Ottomotto (partly Uber restricted stock). This is a few months after Levandowski leaves Waymo. "They hadn’t done anything yet! What were they buying?" in. deed.
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I'm loving these notes from the Travis Kalanick meetings, they're so ominous. "Cheat codes. Find them. Use them.” "The golden time is over. It is war time." "There are rules that separate order and chaos. Need to understand those rules."
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"Reality that matters is catching up. This is the only reality that matters."
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Kalanick told Bloomberg, "I feel like we’re brothers from another mother" re: Levandowski.
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Waymo is getting out ahead of a key piece of Uber evidence, an email from Sasha Zbrozek of Google, a sysadmin(?)
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"It’s all electronics designs, schematics and PCB layouts and the component library for their creation. It was considered low-value enough that we had even considered hosting it off Google infrastructure."
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Verhoeven emphasizes that Zbrozek is a "non-Lidar engineer"
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"If it's so low value" then why the hyped emails so and forth?
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And now we're talking about the Stroz Due Diligence report.
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