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Uber has been accused of stealing trade secrets from Google's self-driving car division Waymo. Now, Uber may face an injunction forcing it to immediately halt its testing of driverless cars in Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Arizona:
Two giants in self-driving car technology will face each other in court on Wednesday. Ride-sharing firm Uber is accused of stealing trade secrets from Waymo - the company spun out from Google's self-driving division.
[...] Both sides will make their case to a judge in San Francisco on Wednesday morning in a bitter dispute that has become the talking point of Silicon Valley. A judge will consider granting a preliminary injunction that would force Uber to immediately suspend use of the technology while legal proceedings were continuing. In an increasingly angry battle, Waymo has accused Uber of being engaged in a "cover-up".
Alsup is not expected to rule immediately on Wednesday, but he may intimate which way he is leaning. At a hearing last month, Alsup warned Uber that it may face an injunction, saying of the evidence amassed by Waymo: "I've never seen a record this strong in 42 years."
Update: The judge in the case has said that he has not seen a "smoking gun" indicating that Uber knew that Anthony Levandowski possessed Waymo trade secrets.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @02:33PM (7 children)
Uber will just ignore the injunction anyway, it has worked for them so far right?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday May 04 2017, @02:58PM (1 child)
It's not criminal! It's a business model!
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday May 04 2017, @04:45PM
Is this so-called judge of Mexican descent? He's BAD, folks, using excessive regulations to hunt a poor unicorn that brings precious jobs to Good Americans...
Oh, wait, the Google guy is named Sergei? Uber is a terrible failing company who harasses women instead of grabbing them outright!
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday May 04 2017, @03:15PM (4 children)
I'd love to see them try. Uber seems to be a complete shithole company with flagrant disregard for the law. Perhaps they need to be reminded that we live in one of those “violently imposed monopolies.”
I'm actually surprised that the powers that be have changed tactics here. They seemed to be going full-blown misogynerd narrative. That is, Uber continues to flout the law, continues to sexually harass their female employees, continues to be a menace to anybody who happens to be female and wants to learn programming, but we get more and more front page stories about how awful all those assigned males are in tech and how it's their fault, collectively and severally, that Malibu Stacy dolls outsell Lisa Lionheart dolls.
Of course the funny thing about Malibu Stacy is that in actual reality the creator of Barbie was a womyn-born-womyn who knew damned well what she was doing creating a doll to sexually objectify women's bodies as an unattainable caricature of the female form in the minds of girls too young to understand how they were being fucked with and brainwashed by pervasive misogyny.
If Uber actually gets taken down for their continued bad faith acts, it would become harder for feminists to continue to say that all assigned males in tech are poisonous M&Ms (not to be confused with giftpilze and poisonous Skittles, which are totally different from poisonous M&Ms).
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday May 04 2017, @05:10PM (3 children)
OK, I was with you until the second paragraph, then you lost me. Not sure what Uber flouting the law has to do with feminism.
Not every tech story is about keeping women out of programming,
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Thursday May 04 2017, @09:08PM (2 children)
OK, I was with you until the second paragraph, then you lost me. Not sure what Uber flouting the law has to do with feminism.
Not every tech story is about keeping women out of programming,
Kurenai's been traumatized by the Michigan RadFems, so everything leads her to the 'how "womyn-born-womyn" and the misogynerds are keeping her down.' narrative.
That's not to say there aren't misogynerd jerks [inc.com] who harass women [wired.com], and those RadFems can be pretty out there [wordpress.com] too.
But she's had a hard time. Which usually leads her to put just about everything into that context. I get it. So I generally let that stuff slide. What you do about it is, of course, up to you.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday May 04 2017, @11:16PM (1 child)
I am mostly aware of the history. I was trying remind her that not everything is an evil radfem plot. There are other actors out there.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday May 05 2017, @03:19AM
I am mostly aware of the history. I was trying remind her that not everything is an evil radfem plot. There are other actors out there.
Good luck with that, but don't hold your breath.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr