An Uber self-driving test car that fatally struck a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, earlier this year was equipped with radar and navigation sensors, but emergency brakes that would have kicked on before the collision were turned off, a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board revealed Thursday.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Friday revived the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s challenge to Seattle’s ordinance allowing app-based drivers like Uber and Lyft to unionize, finding the law could violate federal antitrust rules.
Read moreFind that Uber drivers lacked standing, a federal judge dismissed with prejudice their privacy class action over a 2014 data breach.
Read moreEgypt’s parliament has approved a law to govern popular ride-hailing apps Uber and Careem after the companies appealed a court ruling that revoked their licenses.
Read moreA federal judge granted final approval Wednesday to an $8.1 million settlement of a class action claiming Uber fired or refused to hire drivers after surreptitious background checks.
Read moreJust in time for May Day, the Second Circuit rejected a lawsuit challenging how New York City regulates companies like Uber and Lyft in a way that medallion taxis found devastating to their business.
Read moreA pair of class actions claim Uber is sending unsolicited text messages to former drivers and other nationwide consumers to advertise its lead generation services.
Read moreA federal judge on Wednesday dismissed the bulk of a California man’s proposed class action accusing Uber of spying on Lyft drivers to lure them away from its competition.
Read moreFour Uber security managers are suing former Uber employee Richard Jacobs for claiming they stole trade secrets and spied on competitors in a $10 million defamation lawsuit filed in federal court Friday.
Read moreSubsidiaries of the ride-hail giants Uber, Lyft and Via went to court Friday to challenge New York City’s demand that they make a full 25 percent of their vehicles wheelchair accessible by 2023.
Read moreIn another blow to Uber’s efforts to establish itself in Europe, the European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that member states can punish the ride-hail giant with criminal sanctions without notifying the European Commission first.
Read moreThe family of an Arizona woman killed when struck by an autonomous Uber vehicle apparently has reached a settlement with the company.
Read moreRide-hail giant Uber has agreed to pay $10 million and roll out a series of workplace reforms to settle claims it systematically underpays female and racial minority software engineers.
Read moreAn Egyptian court has ordered authorities to revoke the operating licenses of the Uber and Careem ride-hailing services and to block their mobile apps and software.
Read moreUber suspended all of its self-driving testing Monday after what is believed to be the first fatal pedestrian crash involving the vehicles.
Read moreThe absence of a verdict in the Waymo-Uber showdown, and what could have become precedence on how to balance an engineer’s right to work for a competitor with a company’s right to safeguard its trade secrets, means legal questions remain.
Read moreDismissing an antitrust lawsuit challenging Uber’s surge-pricing model, a New York federal judge said he had no choice but to enforce arbitration clauses that he called “legal and factual fictions.”
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