Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski
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Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski
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Re: Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski
#2Surprised that took this long. Hot potato dropped, now let's see where the damage claims will point.
Re: Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski
#3That too much longer than expected. What was Uber thinking?
Re: Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski
#4Surprised that took this long. Hot potato dropped, now let's see where the damage claims will point.
I don't really understand how damages claims work. Can someone shed some light? No company has made any money off self driving cars. Google/Waymo has definitely not. How can they demonstrate damages?
Re: Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski
#5Of course, whatever salary he was making is far less interesting than the direct benefit of the original Otto acquisition.
Re: Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski
#6Surprised that took this long. Hot potato dropped, now let's see where the damage claims will point.
I don't really understand how damages claims work. Can someone shed some light? No company has made any money off self driving cars. Google/Waymo has definitely not. How can they demonstrate damages?
I think, basically, Uber will pay some $$$ to make the lawsuit go away and "license" Waymo's tech (which they already had, courtesy Mr. Lewandowski, but now will legally have it).
Re: Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski
#7I was thinking simply, "too little, too late" but then realized this could be quite interesting.
Uber's model in most domains is to push hard over the line in the hopes of moving that line. More charitably this could be called "ask for forgiveness rather than permission". So canning Levendowski could be seen as simply a case of this.
But Google's suit is against Uber, not Levendowski, who could now spill beans on all sorts of unsuspected malfeasance. At this point what has he got to lose? If he decides to cooperate with google things could get very interesting.
Re: Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski
#8Surprised that took this long. Hot potato dropped, now let's see where the damage claims will point.
I don't really understand how damages claims work. Can someone shed some light? No company has made any money off self driving cars. Google/Waymo has definitely not. How can they demonstrate damages?
With lawyers?
Re: Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski
#9That too much longer than expected. What was Uber thinking?
From the start it was obvious that the interests of the employee and Uber's didn't align at all in that lawsuit.
The question now is, what did Uber know and when did it know it. Did Uber had contact with that employee when he was still working at Google? I wouldn't be surprised if Uber sued the guy in the future.
Re: Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski
#10I was thinking simply, "too little, too late" but then realized this could be quite interesting. Uber's model in most domains is to push hard over the line in the hopes of moving that line. More charitably this could be called "ask for forgiveness rather than permission". So canning Levendowski could be seen as simply a case of this. But Google's suit is against Uber, not Levendowski, who could now spill beans on all…
Unless they promised to give him a large sum / stocks after everything is settled if he agrees not to talk.