Uber’s New CEO Confronts His First Crisis With Driverless-Car Death

Fatality raises questions about whether company’s driverless-car technology is ready for public roads

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...