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Re:The Uber Bombshell About to Drop by pj_mukh on Monday March 13, 2017 @09:06PM (#13864091)
Has there ever been an indication into what stuff was actually stolen? The only evidence I've seen so far has been of old hardware (LIDAR interface boards etc.). That's hardly anything to construct a grand buyout conspiracy about.

However, if the stolen material had the results of years of training data generated from all the trial runs, that would be Google's only edge in the whole market.

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Re:The Uber Bombshell About to Drop by xapata on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @12:48AM (#13865085)
It's possible that specialized hardware is also a valuable trade secret. Or perhaps simply the method of manufacturing such hardware cheaply enough to produce one for every vehicle.
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Re:The Uber Bombshell About to Drop by dantiberian on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @01:00AM (#13865136)
In the filings, Waymo claims that even the identity of a LiDAR component supplier is a trade secret (because of how long it took them to vet the different suppliers).
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