The Levandowski case is focused on just nailing him on the things they're super confident about, so I don't think it's surprising that the software in this case is part of that list - not least because they had no way of knowing Levandowski stole it until this independent expert verified it.
I just had a thought, wasn't this accident after the Levandowski thing? I wonder if Uber pulled a bunch of code for fear of infringing on waymo and put in this crappy hacky code. They probably didn't want the Levandowski case to appear to slow down their progress.
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Interesting that the identified software isn't in the list of what Levandowski was accused of stealing.
The Levandowski case is focused on just nailing him on the things they're super confident about, so I don't think it's surprising that the software in this case is part of that list - not least because they had no way of knowing Levandowski stole it until this independent expert verified it.
As I remember it, they had pretty good logs. The indictment mentioned "over 14,000" files he downloaded.
I just had a thought, wasn't this accident after the Levandowski thing? I wonder if Uber pulled a bunch of code for fear of infringing on waymo and put in this crappy hacky code. They probably didn't want the Levandowski case to appear to slow down their progress.