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The Dutch Data Protection Authority fines Uber €290 million (US$324 million) for allegedly breaching the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation in order to collect information on its European drivers.
2024-08-26

Uber makes its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, starting by selling stocks at $42 and closing at $41.60. Uber's market cap drops from over $80 billion to about $72 billion.
2019-05-10

Claims emerge that Uber had disabled Volvo's collision avoidance technology in the self-driving car involved in a fatal accident in Arizona.
2018-03-28

The governor of Arizona suspends all statewide-testing of Uber autonomous cars following the March 19 fatal accident involving Uber self-driving car research.
2018-03-26

Police release onboard video from an autonomous Uber car that fatally struck a pedestrian crossing the road in Tempe, Arizona.
2018-03-21

Toyota pulls all its self-driving cars off U.S. roads in the wake of a fatal accident involving an Uber vehicle.
2018-03-20

A woman in Tempe, Arizona, dies after being hit by a self-driving car operated by Uber, in what appears to be the first death of a pedestrian struck by an autonomous vehicle on public roads. In response to the fatal accident, Uber suspends self-driving car tests in all U.S. cities as well as Toronto.
2018-03-19

Uber suspends tests of its self-driving cars in San Francisco, California, after the California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked the registration of the vehicles in the state in response to two red-light violations.
2016-12-21

The Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia invests $3.5 billion in Uber. It is the largest single investment the company has ever received as of that date.
2016-06-1

Uber, in San Francisco, California (U.S.), federal court, says it will pay $28.5 million to settle two lawsuits over misleading background check information. Prosecutors settled a similar lawsuit with competitor Lyft in 2014.
2016-02-11