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Exec Accused of Stealing Waymo's Trade Secrets Starts New Self-Driving Company (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer and serial entrepreneur who was at the center of a trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, is back. And he is connected to an autonomous trucking company that is still in stealth mode, TechCrunch has learned. The company, called Kache.ai (pronounced like cache), has kept a low profile since paperwork registering it as a corporation was first filed with the California Secretary of State nearly seven months ago. And at first glance, there's no indication that Levandowski is even tied to the company.
Little is known about Kache.ai. The word "Kache" in Chinese means truck, which could signal a connection to China. Although TechCrunch was not able to independently verify if Kache.ai has any outside partners or backers yet. [T]he Kache.ai website said the company was working on "the next generation of autonomous vehicle technology for the commercial trucking industry." It appears the company is hiring at every level, from mapping and database experts to people with robotics and simulation skills. The website also noted that the company is looking for software engineers with experience in convolutional neural networks as well as computer vision and machine learning algorithms.
Little is known about Kache.ai. The word "Kache" in Chinese means truck, which could signal a connection to China. Although TechCrunch was not able to independently verify if Kache.ai has any outside partners or backers yet. [T]he Kache.ai website said the company was working on "the next generation of autonomous vehicle technology for the commercial trucking industry." It appears the company is hiring at every level, from mapping and database experts to people with robotics and simulation skills. The website also noted that the company is looking for software engineers with experience in convolutional neural networks as well as computer vision and machine learning algorithms.
You know, da.kache.ai.
Me starting an Amazon affiliate company after spamming Slashdot to death for a year. Oh, wait.
Goodbye, Slashdot!
I'm wondering how much common technology there is in the current state of the art of autonomous vehicles for stealing from your previous employer would make a difference.
As I understand it, every company is approaching the problem from a different perspective and (I would think a bigger issue) is that each company has a different sensor set and philosophy which means that there is different information provided for the system to plan it's way forwards (excuse the pun).
I guess there are common high level operations/actions/responses (like "there's a bike in my path, do I turn, slow down, change lane, etc.?) but I would think that these are changing, being dependent on laws and regulations, hardware and vehicle parameters.
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Levandowski, where have I heard that scummy name before...
Kache.. pronounced like cache... but how do you pronounce cache :P
The word "Kache" in Chinese means truck, which could signal a connection to China.
Or maybe he's going to use the Chinese character for truck as part of his logo - kind of like how the kids have Chinese characters tattooed on their asses - they think it's cool.
In my day, we named shit after French things - made them sound French. Ya know putting "Le" in front of every fucking thing. Like "Le Fucking Thing." - sounds classy, right?
Why should the SJW police care that I don't like the Jews or the blacks? Isn't that my right? Shouldn't the people who preach tolerance be more tolerant of my beliefs?
Your assumption about somebody's racial background based on name, appearance, behavior, etc... is what is racist.
Please try and keep up, you are society's boat anchor. We are tired of dragging bottom and are about to cut the rope
How are you being not tolerated? Have you been imprisoned, or deported, or scheduled for execution? Or is it not intolerance, but rather a questioning of your judgement? Someone asking you to reconsider your position (of persecuting a group of people based on presumed characteristics) is not being intolerant. Maybe you should consider how your life would be richer and more pleasant if you were to reconsider your beliefs, instead of digging in in fear of losing your identity.
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Instead of building a car using the technologies from Waymo, he should have to use technologies from Whamo. Frisbees, hula hoops, slip n slide, ring toss, hacky sacks, hula hoops.
Lol I work at a self driving car âstartupâ(TM) and the puppet CEO is definitely not in charge of anything, the VP of Engineering is not in charge of Engineering, the VP of Product is not doing Product, the COO is chief of nothing.
If you see a self driving car thatâ(TM)s not Waymo (the only ones that are anal about making the technology actually work safely since they have unlimited funding) just stay far far away.
Self driving cars is not going to be commercially viable for many many years since until it is actually on par with humans it will require âremote operatorsâ(TM) in the same city, making the whole thing less cost effective than Uber or Lyft anyways. There will be consumer availability of âself drivingâ(TM) rides but heavily subsidized by VC money, VCs that have not learned from Theranos.
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