Lior Ron, the co-founder of the controversial self-driving technology company Otto, is returning to Uber to head up its trucking logistics company, Uber Freight, TechCrunch has confirmed. Both Ron and his co-founder and ex-Googler Anthony Levandowski went to Uber after it acquired Otto in August of 2016. However, Levandowski was fired from Uber after pleading […]
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Uber’s self-driving truck program is done
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Uber’s self-driving truck program feels like it just took off, but after a court trial and several major leadership changes, it’s been a long road to a dead-end announced Monday.
Back in 2016, Uber acquired Otto — former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski’s self-driving truck startup — and Uber’s self-driving truck program was born. Then Levandowski was sued for taking trade secrets from Google and bringing them to Uber in the acquisition. That was mainly about the LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) laser and sensor technology that uses light to help the autonomous vehicles “see” the road and world around them. Read more…
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View More Uber’s self-driving truck program is doneIn an alternate universe Lyft may have bought Otto
The Uber vs. Waymo trial took a turn for the the weird today when testimony revealed that Otto, the company whose acquisition is at the center of this lawsuit, was entertaining bids from other suitors.
For a bit of background, Otto is the self-driving truck company that Anthony Levandowski co-founded with Lior Ron. Both men previously worked at Google/Alphabet/Waymo — Levandowski on… Read More
Everything you need to understand the Uber-Waymo legal battle
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For the next three weeks the autonomous vehicle industry will be in overdrive. Waymo and Uber, the two biggest leaders in self-driving car technology, are battling it out in court.
The trial over driverless car trade secrets started Monday in San Francisco’s U.S. District Court exposing some of the inner workings of the rival companies. Waymo, a spin-out company from Google’s parents company, Alphabet, has to prove Uber took and used trade secrets for its self-driving car program, along with proving the trade secrets are actually that — secret.
SEE ALSO: Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick keeps his cool during self-driving car courtroom drama Read more…
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View More Everything you need to understand the Uber-Waymo legal battleThe nanny of former Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski has filed an excruciatingly detailed lawsuit
Anthony Levandowski might have thought things couldn’t get much worse. But a new lawsuit filed Levandowski’s former nanny suggests that the exact opposite is true. In fact, much of the nanny’s lawsuit — filed by a personal injury attorney in Fair Oaks, Ca., and rife with complaints, including of a retaliatory and hostile work environment, age discrimination, failure to… Read More
There’s a new religion centered around artificial intelligence and it sounds terrifying
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There’s a new church for tech-minded folks, and it sounds like something out of a science fiction novel.
“Way of the Future” (or WOTF, as they abbreviate it) is
1. Not a joke, and
2According to them (and this is real) “about creating a peaceful and respectful transition of who is in charge of the planet from people to people + ‘machines.'”
Yes, you read that correctly. They want to get a head start on selling out the human race to our machine-overlords-to-be.
The church (for lack of a better word) assumes that technology will eventually surpass human capabilities, and turn into an all-knowing, all-seeing being that will resemble—or arguably actually be—a god. And that we need to know who’s on the computers’ side by keeping track (more on that later). Read more…
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