So time to clear up what appears to be a few misconceptions on this thread: The hearing so far has been about Waymo filing a preliminary injunction against Ube

So time to clear up what appears to be a few misconceptions on this thread: The hearing so far has been about Waymo filing a preliminary injunction against Uber. The scope of the injunction requested was along the lines of "uber needs to stop building all self driving cars until we're done with this civil case". What Uber is arguing is "you're [waymo] saying that we stole your LIDAR, but all of the Lidar tech we use is off the shelf velodyne stuff, which is super obvious that we didn't steal, we purchased from velodyne, this is not worthy on an injunction". Waymo then argued that uber was independently develeoping its own lidar system in parallel with the velodyne stuff it was using, and it wants to stop development there, and uber rebutted along the lines of "there are huge material differences between the lidar we're designing, and the lidar waymo uses, so even if levandowski stole a bunch of info and has it on his personal computer, its not in our product or our research pipeline, or servers, so your theft issue with with our boy levy, not with us, uber the company." All of the argument so far are around the injunction, the actual trial happens in october.