Email from David Drummond (GC of Uber) in January 2015 “Just got the transcript from the Q&A at the Detroit Auto Show. Urmson is openly discussing rolling out an Autonomous Vehicle ridesharing service. I'm thinking it’s time to have a chat with Larry directly.”
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TK: Cheat codes are like elegant solutions to problems that haven’t already been thought of. Gives two examples -- how Tesla cars have sensors and how Uber calculates approx time before car arrives
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TK: People buy Tesla cars. They cost 40 grand or something more. Tesla cars have a lot of sensors in their cars… They’ve got people paying Tesla to help their self-driving effort do better. We would consider that a cheat code for example.
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sounding like a dbag by saying "jam sesh" was 3D chesshttps://twitter.com/RMac18/status/961290191590735872 …
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We're back in court and Alsup is telling lawyers that the court reporter won't transcribe audio from video (so is uh the Michael Douglas speech in the record)
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UBER: You said you’d agreed to indemnity. You also said that you did that in part because it was thought that Google might bring a lawsuit. Why did Uber think that Google might bring a lawsuit?
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TK: It started back at the CMU acquisition. Larry was just very angry, very upset that we were doing their thing.
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TK: When we acquired the CMU team... we acquired them because we couldn’t tell [Google] were still up for partnering and when we acquired [CMU] [Page] made it clear that he was very upset with us and very unhappy that we were doing autonomy
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TK now explaining that he can't read every contract that exists because he gets hundreds a month and each is like "when you get a mortgage or buy a house"
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Also curious: is anyone else under the impression that "cheat codes" is used as lingo in the way that Kalanick described?
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3/1 text, TK to AL Transportation is social graph of physical world ALSUP: Wait, who's replying to that? The reply says "Agree" but it's from TK ALSUP: Is that you? You're agreeing with yourself? TK: I don’t know. It’s been a long time since these texts.
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TK: I wanted to call him and say we’re not building flying cars. If flying cars are made and Google makes them I will make sure that our fifty million customers or so will be able to push a button and get a flying car.
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TK: I tried to approach him for a partnership. He was just upset with us and he said you’re taking our people, you’re taking our IP. It was confusing because I kept telling him, we’re recruiting a lot of your people, people can work where they want to work, but people are not IP.
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This was an October 2016 conversation with Larry Page, and Page did not mention anything about Levandowski or trade secrets.
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Kalanick has been excused but I am about to type up the FUNNIEST exchange right now
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WAYMO: I’ve been reading in the press you’ve been playing a lot of video games. TK: When I’m between gigs I play iphone games. Sometimes. WAYMO: You like playing video games? TK: Like iPhone games is my thing. WAYMO: In the context of video games, you know what a cheat code is?
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TK: Yes, but those codes in those games are put there on purpose by the publisher of the games, and they want the players to have them. It’s part of the fun of the game. That’s just the game.
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WAYMO: But you acknowledge a cheat code allows you to skip ahead, allows you to skip a level and not do the work? TK: No — WAYMO: That’s it your honor.
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AND WITH THAT, TK WAS DISMISSED AND RELEASED FROM ANY SUBPOENA
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Nina Qi (formerly of Uber, manager of corporate development) is now on the stand
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Slide from a report/presentation says: NewCo can shorten AV timeline by 1-2 Years while de-risking our current laser approach
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Playing back the depo tape, Qi looks incredibly nervous in the depo. Much better prepped for trial.
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We're basically going over biz dev numbers, how much value Uber thought they were getting out of the Otto deal.
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Qi and Levandowski communicated by text and those texts have since been deleted and can't be accessed by her anymore
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Uber cross just asking if she had anything to do with laser, LIDAR, etc. Qi says her job was just "figuring out how much Uber would be willing to pay for the deal."
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