A woman has died after being hit by an Uber in the first fatality of its kind, sparking the company to remove the cars from the road. Elain Herzberg, 49, was walking through the suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, when she was hit by the vehicle on Sunday night.
The Volvo was in self-driving mode with a human backup driver at the wheel when it hit Ms Herzberg as she was walking a bicycle outside the lines of a crosswalk, police said. She died at a hospital. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi expressed condolences on his Twitter account and said the company is working with local law enforcement on the investigation.