Each side only gets 70 minutes total for the opening and Alsup only lets the trial go until 1 pm each day, by my calculation this delay will only be cutting into witness testimony -- my guess is we're only hearing from Waymo CEO Krafcik today
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This case is fascinating because the rank and file of Silicon Valley are almost uniformly rooting against Uber, but what's happening is that talent is getting punished for hopping companies
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It's possible that Levandowski represents everything that Silicon Valley workers hate about their own workplaces.
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UBER: Counsel talks about sensational emails -- of course they’re going to talk about that because they don’t want to talk about the technology.
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LMAO Uber's case really is that Levandowski is a useless piece of shit
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2011 email from David Lawee: "As Google I suppose I am prepared to take the risk with Anthony, but I can say, definitively, that if I was choosing a business partner to start a company with, there is no way in hell I would proceed."
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Levandowski, says Uber, "has a pattern of surprising… unusual behavior…"
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Google retained AL despite “early warning signs that he wasn’t trustworthy." Ultimately Uber fired AL.
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Uber emphasizes that engineering skills and talents and publicly known ideas are different from trade secrets, that engineers should be allowed to move from company to company with their talent.
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Uber is done with the public part of their testimony. We're now proceeding to the nonpublic part of opening statements.
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ALSUP: I hate to bring this up but... *sigh* My law clerk tells me there’s someone on Twitter pretending to be me.
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ALSUP: I don’t have a Twitter account. I don’t.. I don’t do those things. For obvious reasons.
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Courtroom cameras are off, everyone not covered by the protective order has been expelled from the main courtroom.
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We're back on. The first witness — Waymo CEO John Krafcik — has been called to the stand.
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Waymo starts off by asking him about his work experience, his education background, and the first car he bought
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Before he came to Waymo, he was at TrueCar, and before that, Hyundai for ten years.
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Counsel asked why he came to Google, which he's taking as an opportunity to pitch self-driving cars as a way to prevent car crashes
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It sounds to me like a jury consultant suggested that the jurors might be resistant to self-driving tech as inherently dangerous and creepy
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On how many people die in car crashes in the US: "That’s like a 737 crashing every hour of every day."
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WAYMO: How does LIDAR work? KRAFCIK: *sigh* It's... it's a rather complicated technology, but...
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He describes it as "painting the world with beams of light" so that they can figure out where things are precisely.
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WAYMO: How does Waymo ensure safety without anyone driving? KRAFCIK: We’re driven by safety at Waymo.
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this is almost as good as the time eric schmidt smugly stated that he was the fastest email replier in this company and that it was part of how he managed
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WAYMO: Are you confident that Waymo's cars are safe? KRAFCIK: Very confident.
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Now asking about his kids. He describes his kids. WAYMO: Would you put those kids in a driverless Waymo car? KRAFCIK: Absolutely.
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lol a jury consultant definitely wrote A Memo here
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Fun testimony: Krafcik says Waymo has racked up 4 million real world miles of testing and has racked up "billions and billions" of miles with virtual testing
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We're now watching a Waymo promo video from the Arizona pilot project
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We.... are going to see so many promo videos, aren't we?
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There's three cameras following three cars, which have Waymo employees as passengers. Yay the cars worked yay
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Le chargement semble prendre du temps.
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