Uber CEO calls Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake,” scrambles to backtrack

But I am not sure this statement can be forgiven.

A prototype self-driving car runs over a person due to negligence on the part of the test operator who was supposed to prevent it and failures on the part of the team who created the vehicle.

It was not negligence or failures that sent killers to an embassy before Mr. Kashoggi was scheduled to arrive, strangled him, cut him up into pieces, sent out a body double as a distraction, disposed of the evidence, and lied about everything.

To be honest this won't assure anyone. This is not a very politically savvy move, to quite understate it.

EDIT: to expound further, the CEO has to have caught wind that the company is facing an amount of criticism for the killing of the pedestrian. To use it to justify another, popularly condemned act requires a good lack of political sense.

Guy is just a typical CEO who says what he needs to inorder to please his current audience. It would have been better to make no comment as he really was stuck between a rock and a hard place if you only consider it from the perspective of his role.

Here I go making mistakes again, murdering people left and right, i'm so clumsy, mondays right? - Saudis probably