A Cantankerous Injuction

     It's the biggest current battle in Technology and Automobiles, things are on and starting to speed up. This isn't supposed to be a news base. This is me presenting you, an idiot who doesn't understand the diction of CNN or The Huffington Post, with some facts, but mostly opinions and banter on the presented rulings. And here goes, and I should say, it kinda feels like a live soap opera.
     So basically Uber was trying to develop some self driving cars (probably) after looking at Google's self driving cars but couldn't nail the technology down, but they wanted to so badly because who wouldn't feel so scared and elevated when riding a self driving car, people would probably just call a self driving uber to get to the next block just to see how it feels.
     Former Google Employee Anthony Levandowski of Waybo, Google's self driving sub-section, stole 14,000 "top secret" files and quit right after only to find his own self driving truck company, which was bought out by, guess who, Uber. There was a preliminary hearing by Waybo to delay the shutter their self driving program, and from it a lot of interesting things arose.
     Firstly, Levandowski seems to have stolen the files as reported, Uber hasn't made any claims denying that. The first piece of evidence in this case (note when I say evidence here I don't mean like actual evidence that the attorney uses, they may or may not be using the pieces that I''m referring to) is that Levandowski is stock high: he received 5 million shares of Uber worth 250 million the day he left Google. That's pretty coincidental. Whats more is that they blocked the release of 3500 documents related to the acquisition of Otto, the truck company. This is crucial because in the agreement there could have been some lines detailing that Levandowski has traded the files for the stock. Lastly there have been repeated sayings by google's lawyers that all the answers can be found on Levandowski's laptop but he has pleaded the fifth which some say can directly be evidence that he is in fact guilt of the crime, and that some also includes me. I'll leave you with one last line that sums up the entire case, "They're really trying to be cute here... We're not hiding anything here."

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