Uber’s expansion myth collapsed under rival price wars and a fatal crash

Evidence

Uber’s ambitions in China also collapsed after burning a billion dollars in a price war with local rival DiDi, forcing a sale of its China operations in 2016. Finally, Uber’s dream of self-driving cars unraveled after its autonomous vehicle killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, in 2018. (Two years later, Uber would quietly shutter its self-driving unit.) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 506