Back to the Zbrozek email about the 14k documents being "low-value." A second email in 2017: "I’m a little leery because both of those numbers aren’t really meaningful to any narrative."
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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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The Chauffeur group photo again. KRAFCIK: Anthony Levandowski on the far right. WAYMO: Anthony’s on the far right with the hat on? K: Yes. WAYMO: Have you met Anthony Levandowski? K: I have. here we go
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"He always had a little bit of disappointment. Not necessarily a bad thing. Something that would drive you to do more, to do better."
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"I think it’s fair to say we had different points of view on safety."
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For Pacifica, they added redundant steering and braking systems. "Anthony had a strong point of view that we didn’t need those redundancies."
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omg they're going to make krafcik the safety-first dad and smear levandowski as the seatbelts-off teen
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Krafcik woke up one day and Page emailed him to tell him that Levandowski had resigned.
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Currently in evidentiary dogfight over which rule lets Krafcik can talk about the lunchtime phone call he had with Levandowski after he suddenly resigned
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KRAFCIK: We didn’t have a good sense of what he was doing. At this point, based on the disappointment that I personally felt when he left without telling me, my perspective on him shifted dramatically. I went from considering him a friend to considering him an enemy.
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