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Does anyone else remember this New Yorker profile [1] of Anthony Levandowski and self driving cars? Way back from 2013, when this tech was still novel. Google
by golfer 10y ago
Does anyone else remember this New Yorker profile [1] of Anthony Levandowski and self driving cars? Way back from 2013, when this tech was still novel. Google let Levandowski run the show for this piece -- his name is mentioned 57 times in the article. Goes to show how important and trusted he was in Google's universe.
[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/11/25/auto-correct http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/11/25/auto-correct
- cpeterso 10y agoAnthony Levandowski was targeted back in 2014 by protesters against Google's military work with Boston Dynamics. https://arstechnica.com/business/2014/01/protestors-show-up-at-the-doorstep-of-google-self-driving-car-engineer/ https://arstechnica.com/business/2014/01/protestors-show-up-... http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/01/22/activists-target-google-employee-berkeley-resident/ http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/01/22/activists-target-goog...
- Animats 10y agoSure. I met him when he was still a student at UC Berkeley. He was the one who built the self-driving, self-balancing motorcycle for the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. It didn't navigate that well or get all that far, but it was really cool.