* Was so reckless that while at Google he instigated perhaps the first self-driving car crash in California: https://www.newsweek.com/former-google-engineer-allegedly-mo...
* Got $179,000,000 from Google in an outsized performance bonus. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/04/ex-uber-self-driving-head-an... (The founders of Nuro got $40m each). Google and Uber are trying to claw the money back.
* Got his pardon supported by Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey.
The pardon claims he was more brilliant than jerk. Perhaps instead it will define Levandowski as the prototypical brilliant jerk.