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The Register Uber robo-ride's deadly crash: Self-driving car had emergency braking switched off by design The Register One of Uber's self-driving cars killed a pedestrian crossing the road at night because its emergency braking system was turned off, according to an investigation by the US government's National Transport Safety Board. The watchdog's four-page report ... Self-driving car crash report highlights Uber safety shortcomingsFinancial Times Emergency brake was disabled on self-driving Uber that killed womanThe Guardian Uber car 'had six seconds to respond' in fatal crashBBC News The Independent -TechCrunch -Bloomberg -Ars Technica all 225 news articles » https://www.google.com/news

Uber will continue with its AV research in Pittsburgh and San Francisco, but in the email, Uber executive Eric Meyhofer reportedly said the company ...View the full article

Quartz Uber offered a driver $400 after he alleged a company rep assaulted ... Quartz On Jan. 31, Aaron Johnson, 53, drove to Uber's driver service center in Salt Lake City, Utah, to sort out a rider complaint. Johnson, a military veteran, had ... Uber driver claims company tried to hide employee assault with hush moneyNew York Post all 2 news articles » https://www.google.com/news

By David Shepardson. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Uber had disabled an emergency braking system in a self-driving vehicle that struck and killed a ... View the full article

A federal report on an Uber autonomous car's fatal impact with a pedestrian in March states that Uber put all the responsibility for emergency braking ... View the full article

Uber is still dealing with the fallout from the fatal self-driving car crash that happened in Arizona two months ago, but the ride-hailing service is forging ...View the full article

More details have emerged about the self-driving Uber car crash that killed a woman in Arizona earlier this year. The National Transportation Safety ... View the full article

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The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its preliminary report into the fatal Uber self-driving car crash in Arizona that ... View the full article

Gizmodo Uber Driver Arrested With Passengers in His Car on Outstanding Attempted Rape Warrant Gizmodo An Uber driver was arrested by authorities outside Atlanta after a license plate check revealed he had a litany of outstanding warrants. Those charges included two counts of attempted rape, two counts of sexual battery, and three counts of aggravated ... https://www.google.com/news

May.24 -- Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, vice president and general manager for EMEA at Uber Technologies, discusses steps to protect drivers and the ... View the full article

Last week, after months of scrutiny and negative publicity, Uber announced that it would “no longer require mandatory arbitration for individual claims ... View the full article

Uber chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi said the company's board is no longer fighting for control after he proposed a new structure last October.View the full article

Investopedia (blog) Uber Jumps to $62 Billion Valuation Investopedia (blog) On Wednesday, on-demand transportation giant Uber Technologies Inc. said that three investors are looking to buy up to $600 million worth of the private company's stock. At a tender offer of $40 per share, they have valued the Silicon Valley peer-to ... Uber hits profitability—for now—along rocky road to an IPOPitchBook News & Analysis all 5 news articles » https://www.google.com/news

Braking manoeuvres are not enabled while Uber's cars are under computer control because it reduces the potential for erratic behaviour. Instead ... View the full article

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi with French president Emmanuel Macron. Reuters. It's also down to the youthful Macron and his determination to turn ...View the full article

A report conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reveals that the self-driving Uber car that struck and killed a pedestrian was ... View the full article

On Wednesday, Khosrowshahi met with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss Uber's commitment to the country. The same day, he ... View the full article

And finally, Uber says it booked a whopping 55% more rides and food deliveries from a year ago. Uber also says it's finally in the black after selling its ... View the full article

CNBC Uber 'moving in the right direction' and will hopefully keep London license, exec says CNBC Uber has taken steps to improve its business model and is hopeful it will regain its license to operate in London, the firm's head of EMEA said Thursday. "London is a very important and strategic market for us, obviously," Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty told ... https://www.google.com/news

An autonomous Uber car spotted a pedestrian about six seconds before fatally hitting her but did not stop because the system used to automatically ... View the full article

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Uber had disabled an emergency braking system in a self-driving vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Arizona in ... View the full article

WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters) - An Uber self-driving vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Arizona in March failed to identify the pedestrian or to ... View the full article

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Uber [UBER.UL] self-driving vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Arizona in March failed to identify the pedestrian ... View the full article

Thursday, May 24: NFL owners ban kneeling during national anthem, Trump considers auto import tariffs, Uber shares financial data. Yahoo Finance's ... View the full article