Uber's toxic culture risks its driverless future too

So Uber's blowhard-in-chief Travis Kalanick is finally out, out as CEO -- after some of its most prominent investors put the squeeze on him to go (not just take a time out). Scandal after scandal has hammered the company in recent times, culminating in an external investigation into a corporate culture accused by a former female employee of being rife with sexism, aggression and inequality. Kalanick's aggressive style of management has been the Uber rule, not the exception -- and arguably, setting aside the current slew of internal scandals, the company has been taking a more emollient approach, at least vis-a-vis business expansion. Working to change rules, for sure, but not always so publicly riding roughshod over them as it used to. Although in private the underhand tactics have evidently continued.