Uber buys a bikeshare company as it looks beyond cars by Matt McFarland @mattmcfarland April 9, 2018: 12:42 PM ET

Uber has acquired a bikeshare company as it expands beyond cars in its efforts to reshape transportation.

The ride-hailing company on Monday said it bought Jump Bikes, a New York-based firm that operates in 40 US cities.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a blog post that the company wants to make multiple modes of transportation available in its app, including bicycles and subway rides. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Some of Uber's ride-hailing rivals have already invested in bicycles. In January, China's Didi Chuxing expanded into the huge and fiercely competitive Chinese bike-sharing market. In the United States, Lyft announced a sponsorship of Baltimore bikeshare stations last month.

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The life of an Uber test 

driver

by Sara Ashley O'Brien and Matt McFarland   @CNNTechMarch 21, 2018: 5:43 PM ET

A test driver was behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber vehicle when it struck and

 killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona on Sunday night.

Autonomous car companies have test drivers on board so they
can take over in case of emergencies.

But that safeguard wasn't enough to prevent the death 49-year-old
 Elaine Herzberg. Tempe police say Herzberg was walking her bicycle
 across a street when Uber's Volvo XC90 SUV hit her.

It's unclear as of now what exactly happened. The test driver,
Rafaela Vasquez, has not been charged in the incident.

But it's thrown the role of test drivers into the spotlight.

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