Uber’s self-driving lead engineer wanted to go after Tesla’s Autopilot with ‘faketesla’ campaign

[Morgen]

[QUOTE]Through the discovery process of the lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, in which the latter is accusing the former of having colluded with a former Google engineer, Anthony Levandowski, to steal technology from their self-driving car startup, we now learn that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Levandowski really don’t like Tesla CEO Elon Musk and some of the claims he made about the Autopilot program.

In a series of text messages between the two released by Waymo’s lawyers (first reported by Mark Harris at IEEE), Uber’s CEO and Levandowski, who until recently led Uber’s self-driving effort after the ride-sharing company bought his self-driving truck startup Otto, exchanged articles about Tesla’s Autopilot being blamed in accidents and comments about Musk’s claims regarding Tesla’s self-driving efforts.
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Musk has often talked about not needing lidar sensors to achieve fully self-driving capacity.
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Levandowski, who is an expert in lidar sensors and developed some of Google’s lidar technology, which is what the company is accusing him of having stolen, called Musk’s claim “shit” and even suggested to Kalanick that they should start a “faketesla” social media campaign.
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[url]https://electrek.co/2017/08/15/uber-self-driving-teslas-autopilot/[/url]

[jamzzster]

And i just had a great idea for a new porn company

[Lazore]

He wanted to, but didnt?

Did we really need a thread, i dont really see this as anything big, loads of people wants to do dumb stuff to bring down Tesla

[Morgen]

[QUOTE=Lazore;52576884]He wanted to, but didnt?

Did we really need a thread, i dont really see this as anything big, loads of people wants to do dumb stuff to bring down Tesla[/QUOTE]

He got fired a few months later with all the controversy over him stealing Google's tech so he didn't really have a chance to do much yet.

[Gbps]

Kinda just seems like competitors to Tesla talking about not liking Elon Musk or Tesla.

I don't see how that's newsworthy.