The Waymo v. #uber trial has shaken my confidence in self-driving cars
February 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Amid the avalanche of damning emails and embarrassing text messages that flowed out of the Waymo-Uber trial, what struck me the most was when ousted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Anthony Levandowski — Kalanick’s onetime business partner who he described in court as his “brother from another mother” — described the race to build self-driving cars as a “zero sum game.”
“We need to think through the strategy to take all the shortcuts we can,” Levandowski told Kalanick. “I just see this as a race and we need to win, second place is the first looser [sic].”
This callous attitude toward a potentially game-changing, life-saving, and paradigm-shifting technology like autonomous…
