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The article reports on the move by California regulators to challenge the policies of ride-hailing companies like Uber in handling sexual assault complaints against their drivers. Also cited are the memorandum (memo) sent by Santa Clara County assistant district attorney Terry Harman detailing concerns over sexual assaults on Uber rides, and the efforts by authorities to convince Uber to report sexual assaults to law enforcement.

The article reports on the claim by Uber chief executive Dara Khosrowshani to a San Francisco federal court in California that he terminated former Uber security head Joe Sullivan, who is on trial due to a 2016 security breach, due to lost of trust.

The article discusses Uber has agreed to pay New Jersey 100 million U.S. Dollar in back taxes after the state said the ride-hailing company had misclassified its drivers as independent contractors.

The article discusses that according to the federal prosecutors, the chief of security for transport company Uber, Joe Sullivan's justice was obstructed when he failed to disclose a breach of driver and customer records to government regulators in 2016.

The article focuses on the product demonstration of an autonomous vehicle conducted by Drive.ai, a startup from Silicon Valley, California that plans to operate a fleet of self-driving taxis in a limited area of Frisco, Texas beginning in July 2018. Topics covered include significance of the product demonstration in line with the death of a pedestrian in March 2018 after a self-driving car operated by Uber hit her, and the origins of Drive.ai which was founded by roboticist Carol Reiley.

The article reports on the discovery of a letter, which detailed a secretive effort at Uber Technologies Inc. to gather intelligence on competitors and cover its tracks, that causes Judge William Alsup of Federal District Court in San Francisco, California to delay a trade secrets trial.

The article informs that transportation firms like Toyota, Uber and Waymo have discussed how they are testing autonomous vehicles in various cities. It is noted that these firms are also testing vehicles inside computer simulations and virtual cars. It is noted that researchers are also developing methods to enable cars to gather skills more quickly than human engineers with explicit software code.

The article reports that Uber Technologies Inc. will not renew its permit to test self-driving cars until the police and regulators end their investigation into the killing of a woman in Arizona by one of its autonomous cars.

The article offers a brief guide on how driverless vehicles of Uber Technologies Inc. operate.

The article reports that ride hailing firm Wyamo has agreed to settle lawsuit filed against ride-hailing firm Uber for stealing its driverless car technology and mentions that artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been available from other sources.

The article reports that technology firm Uber has been accused by car development firm Waymo of conspiring with a former Google engineer to steal trade secrets and mentions how judge William Alsup continued to upbraid Uber's lawyers for not being more forthcoming with evidence.

The article reports that Uber's self-driving cars were having problems months before the fatal crash that struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona. Topics discussed include Uber's failure to meet its target of 13 miles per intervention as of March 2018, its legal battle with Waymo, and evidence that not all drivers followed Uber's training. Also mentioned are documents showing that Uber was planning to seek regulatory approval by December 2018 to start a self-driving car service in Arizona.

The article deals with the negative impact of a fatal accident that killed pedestrian Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona on the autonomous vehicle program of ridesharing company Uber. Uber decided to suspend its self-driving car tests in several cities, including Tempe and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Uber chief executive officer Dara Khosrowshahi is planning to partner with other companies on autonomous technologies.

The article reports that an autonomous sport utility vehicle operated by ridesharing company Uber has struck and killed a woman on a street in Tempe, Arizona on March 18, 2018. Topics mentioned include the decision of Uber to suspend self-driving testing in Tempe as well as other cities, technology companies that have started to expand testing of their self-driving vehicles in cities around the U.S., and a U.S. Senate bill that would preempt states from creating their own vehicle safety laws.