Good morning and welcome to another M-Lex podcast. I'm Mike Swift, M-LX's chief global

privacy and data security correspondent here in San Francisco. And I'm joined this morning by

Amy Miller, M-Lex's senior reporter for privacy and data security,

and she's also based here in San Francisco.

And so it's finally arrived.

We're ready to go after two delays with the beginning of the trade secret trial between Uber and Waymo before

Judge William Alsup in San Francisco.

I'm joined by Amy this morning who will be our lead correspondent in the trial.

Morning Amy.

Good morning, Mike.

And this promises to be a trial for everyone.

We'll have some cool technology with LiDAR sensors for driverless cars.

We will have likely testimony about the bromance between Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and

Anthony Lewandowski, the engineer who allegedly stole 14,000 files from Google self-driving car

unit and took them to Uber. And we will have some testimony from some of Silicon Valley's leading lights like Google

co-founders, Sergei Bryn and Larry Page.

So Amy, why is this trial important and what are you really looking forward to in the next

few weeks?

Well, it's exciting. It's obviously going to help determine who comes out ahead and the race

to dominate the self-driving car industry. Intel reported last year that, or predicted last

year that by 2050 the industry was going to be $7 trillion, and employ half a million people. It's just going to rain money for everybody, apparently,

from what we're hearing.

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