Michael: This is a shameful thing to admit, but every time I see “net neutrality” in a news story, I have to force myself to continue reading the article. There are very real potential implications to the F.C.C.’s actions, but you’re right that it’ll take time to see whether they pan out. (That said, most of what I use the internet for these days is watching “The Great British Baking Show: Masterclass” on Netflix, and if my ability to watch Paul and Mary bake a perfect Victorian tennis cake is threatened, I will be very cross.)

Farhad: Let’s dive back into the mess that is Uber.

So, you may know that Waymo, Google’s self-driving car sister company, is suing Uber for theft of its technology. There was a development related to that legal case this week. Anthony Levandowski, the former Google employee and current Uber employee who is at the center of the case, stepped aside from his job of leading some of the company’s self-driving car technology. This follows a split between Levandowski’s lawyers and Uber’s lawyers: Levandowski, seeking to protect himself, had invoked his Fifth Amendment rights in the case, which potentially imperiled Uber’s case. His stepping aside from the self-driving job will give some legal cover to Uber, it seems.

Michael: Levandowski’s legal issues continue to be one of the biggest millstones hanging around Uber’s neck, especially if the company believes that self-driving cars are critical to its future. Another one is the man who’s leading Uber, Travis Kalanick, as Lesser Mike deftly chronicled in his profile of the C.E.O. earlier this week.

For a company that once looked unassailable, Uber is under fire from all sides, and definitely doesn’t look as if it can go public anytime soon. But why haven’t other competitors — Lyft first and foremost, but also smaller ones like Gett — been able to seize upon those issues and provide more heat?

Farhad: Yeah, I dunno. Meantime, two more self-driving car items: Bloomberg published a photo of a retrofitted Lexus that Apple is using to test its self-driving tech. And Waymo announced a program to let people in Phoenix test its fleet of self-driving minivans.

Also: A start-up funded by tech titans — including Alphabet’s chief, Larry Page — announced a flying vehicle that was described as a “flying car,” but actually was more like a boat that can hover. It doesn’t drive on roads, which seems to be a requirement to be a flying car.