Dara Khosrowshahi spent much of the first six months as Uber Technologies Inc.’s chief executive cleaning up scandals he inherited. Just as it appeared Uber was turning a corner, a new crisis has emerged, this time under his watch.
Uber now owns the unfortunate distinction as the company behind the first autonomous vehicle to strike and kill a person. The fatality, which occurred after an Uber self-driving car hit a woman crossing a road in Tempe, Ariz., on Sunday night, prompted Uber to suspend testing of its driverless...