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Trump Pardons Anthony Levandowski
- choppaface 6y agoKeep in mind that Levandowski: * Was so reckless that while at Google he instigated perhaps the first self-driving car crash in California: https://www.newsweek.com/former-google-engineer-allegedly-modified-self-driving-software-caused-crash-1174058 https://www.newsweek.com/former-google-engineer-allegedly-mo... * Got $179,000,000 from Google in an outsized performance bonus. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/04/ex-uber-self-driving-head-anthony-levandowski-declares-bankruptcy.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/04/ex-uber-self-driving-head-an... (The founders of Nuro got $40m each). Google and Uber are trying to claw the money back. * Got his pardon supported by Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey. The pardon claims he was more brilliant than jerk. Perhaps instead it will define Levandowski as the prototypical brilliant jerk.