A company with a horrendous reputation for having an unethical,
and harsh, company culture is likely to be attracted to places in which lax
regulatory oversight exists. A governmental view that regulations should be
minimized dovetails with such a company. The two are a match, though not
exactly made in heaven. The nexus can be situated closer to the ground, in a
desert in North America, in Arizona in particular. In the case of Uber, which
was testing its self-driving cars there in 2018, the flashpoint came in March,
when such a car hit a pedestrian who was crossing a street without a sustained
sidewalk. Suddenly society took another look, a much more hesitant look, at
self-driving technology. Missed, however, was the nexus between Uber’s squalid
culture/mentality and Arizona—the culpability of both having led to a perfect
storm.
The full essay is at "Uber in Arizona: A Perfect Storm"
