A woman walking across an Arizona road was hit and killed by a self-driving car from Uber Technologies Inc. on Sunday — probably the first pedestrian fatality for the fast-growing movement ...

Video shows Uber robot car in fatal accident did not try to avoid woman. By Carolyn Said, Staff Writer Updated March 21, 2018 7:46 p.m.

At least until robot cars hit the roads en masse, Uber will have to figure out a way to keep the drivers on which its business depends. Or else the courts will.

But rather than slap the cuffs on Uber’s robot car, investigators instead highlighted the many human errors that culminated in the death of 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg.

The automated emergency braking system on an Uber robot test car was turned off when the vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian in Arizona in March, according to federal investigators.

Uber Technologies is cutting more than 100 test-driver jobs from its autonomous vehicle program in Pittsburgh and San Francisco months after a fatal crash involving one of the robot cars.

The ride-hailing company is in talks to help Mr. Kalanick, who was forced out in 2017, buy an autonomous vehicles start-up as ...

Uber's self-driving cars will help the company overcome its driver-growth struggles, according to Eric Meyhofer, CEO of Uber's self-driving car unit. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

The next time you summon an Uber, it could be a robot taxi. To test passenger reactions, the ride-hailing company will put a handful of self-driving cars into service in San Francisco starting ...

Robot cars don't do much, if anything, to alleviate these problems — and they may make them worse. The biggest problem that robot cars "solve" is the cost of human labor.

In a release, Uber and Avride announced a plan to offer both street robot and autonomous car deliveries through Uber and Uber Eats. Austin American-Statesman That will soon be an option ...

Scoop: Security guards working at Uber's San Francisco facility for self-driving cars dismantle a nearby tent city, according to homeless people who were displaced. Uber's robot cars move in, and ...