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Re:Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsu... by Tomis02 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @03:24AM (#24058128)
> world's best self-driving engineer

Citation needed. I don't see many self-driving cars around, did you mean "world's most self-promoting engineer in self-driving cars"?

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Re:Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsu... by tester34 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @05:23AM (#24058785)
>I don't see many self-driving cars around

It doesn't mean that he's not the best, does it?

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Re:Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsu... by Tomis02 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @06:31AM (#24059171)
That's why I was asking for a citation, I want to know by what criteria he was deemed to be the god of self-driving cars.
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Re:Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsu... by tester34 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @09:45AM (#24060664)
My take on that but by no means I'm knowledgeable in those topics:

As far as I've heard Waymo was considered to be #1[0] when it comes to self-driving cars, thus it's probably someone of Waymoers

So if he was actually doing a lot of work there (basing on experience and how important for Google he was) then I think it's fair to consider him as a pretendent to be industry leader

[0] - Basing on Googling "most advanced autonomous cars"

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