{"id":41842,"date":"2018-01-18T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41842"},"modified":"2018-01-17T12:34:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T17:34:22","slug":"weird-lawsuit-filed-against-waymo-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/01\/18\/weird-lawsuit-filed-against-waymo-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird lawsuit filed against Waymo engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"

In The Register<\/em>, Kieren McCarthy<\/a> reports on the case:<\/p>\n

The engineer at the center of a massive self-driving car lawsuit \u2013 brought by Google-stablemate Waymo against Uber \u2013 neglects his kids, is wildly disorganized, and has a large selection of bondage gear, his former nanny has sensationally alleged.<\/p>\n

Anthony Levandowski may also be paying a Tesla techie for trade secrets, may have secretly helped set up several self-driving car startups, and at one point planned to flee across the border to Canada in an effort to avoid the legal repercussions of his actions at both Waymo and Uber, it is further claimed.<\/p>\n

Those extraordinary allegations come in a highly unusual lawsuit [PDF] filed earlier this month by his ex-nanny Erika Wong, who worked for Waymo’s former star engineer for six months, from December 2016 to June 2017.<\/p>\n

Wong’s lawsuit identifies no less than 41 causes of action \u2013 ranging from alleged health and safety code violations to emotional distress \u2013 and asks for a mind-bogglingly $6m in recompense. Levandowski’s lawyer said the lawsuit is a “work of fiction.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not safe for work bits below the fold:<\/p>\n

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The bedroom becomes quite a place of intrigue in the lawsuit, with the children allegedly uncovering sex toys, pictures, and money on no less than four separate occasions \u2013 with Wong rushing in to help clean up, apparently. But not before she carefully catalogued what she found. At one point, an extra lock is placed on the bedroom door.<\/p>\n

“The children pulled open one of Levandowski\u2019s dresser drawers in his bedroom, various sized flesh colored dildos were openly exposed. Wong immediately closed the dresser drawer,” the court filing describes one occasion.<\/p>\n

Another: “That late afternoon, when Levandowski was away, Wong was in the kitchen for a period of time, the children were in Levandowski\u2019s bedroom. Half an hour later, she walked back to Levandowski\u2019s bedroom, Wong found his dresser drawer open and items on the floor, taken out by the children.”<\/p>\n

Wong then lists in some details no less than 21 items she allegedly found:<\/p>\n