Inside Uber’s strategy to avoid a head-on collision with autonomous cars

Pale springtime sun skims across lower Manhattan’s streets and sidewalks as buses groan, jackhammers echo, and commuters hustle. It’s a fitting backdrop for Uber’s annual product showcase, Go-Get, held on this April morning inside the creamy marble confines of the Perelman Performing Arts Center. Uber’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi , was hired nine years ago to impose order on the chaos of the company’s wildly aggressive corporate culture.