Waymo v. Uber Trial: Travis Kalanick Completes His Testimony

It's time to admit it: Uber employees sometimes send inartful electronic communications. When former Google employee and now senior Uber engineering director Lior Ron testified, he also got the, "What the hell were you thinking when you sent this?" treatment from Waymo lawyers. If Waymo's opening arguments are to be believed, these messages show that Uber is a company willing to cut corners to win, no matter the cost. Most of them are between Kalanick, Ron, and the man Waymo alleges made off with its intellectual property, Anthony Levandowski. Levandowski is a former Google self-driving car engineer who Waymo says stole vital documents containing proprietary laser tech trade secrets before starting his own autonomous truck company, Otto--which was acquired by Uber just a few months later.