CEO: Uber open to using self-driving tech from competition

'If any of those competitors want to put their tech onto our platform, we’d be absolutely open as long as their tech is safe enough,' said Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on March 4. He is pictured here in New Delhi, India, in October 2019. — Reuters

Uber Technologies Inc's self-driving unit is open to using technology from competitors in the industry, the company's chief executive said on March 4.

"If any of those competitors want to put their tech onto our platform, we’d be absolutely open as long as their tech is safe enough," Dara Khosrowshahi said at the Morgan Stanley 2020 Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco.