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He’s not The Godfather of self driving cars he’s a thief. He tried to sell google’s self driving car division to Uber, but didn’t own the thing he was trying t
by more_corn 4y ago
He’s not The Godfather of self driving cars he’s a thief.
He tried to sell google’s self driving car division to Uber, but didn’t own the thing he was trying to sell. He walked off with all the tech and actively tried to take all the people. He was convicted and sentenced.
He’s also implicated in several other unethical self-enrichment schemes including founding companies to sell components to himself at a divisions he ran (multiple times), cheating his employees out of the ownership shares they deserved. He also tried to dodge court ordered reparations by founding a phony religion.
Calling him The Godfather of anything hides his crimes and makes the author complicit in his attempts to whitewash his reputation.
Shame on you and him.
- Fricken 4y agoThe title goes to Sebastien Thrun, who led the team that won the 2005 self driving car challenge, and went on to lead the Google self-driving car project. Levandowsky was Thrun's right hand man in the Google days.