jckelley

This isn't true. They own side-projects the relate to your direct job or that can directly compete with Amazon. If your side project is a compression algorithm and you work in website design, Amazon doesn't really have any right to your stuff.

It's actually a pretty standard invention agreement across tech companies.

I know nothing about medical law, but I hope they can do something like this. They essentially treated her like a criminal and clearly caused a lot of emotional damage.

It's a huge social/economic issue though. The people who can afford self-driving cars in our lifetime are not (usually) the same people taking the subway to work every day.