This reminds me of the quote: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair Ube

This reminds me of the quote: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair Uber's statement potentially demonstrates the exact problem with self-investigating. Given the negative PR from a sexual assault story, Uber employees have a strong incentive to convince themselves that nothing happened and that it was just a "hug". Uber's statement would be the third significant moral failure in a single incident.