How much the recent spate of negative media coverage of Uber and its workplace culture will have on its business and ability to attract talent is anybody’s guess. But new financial data shows how profitable the ride-sharing firm is in key cities in the U.S. and Europe—and gives a clue about what it has to do to cut its enormous overall losses.
Meanwhile, a team at Uber calculated that the switch to self-driving cars, still many years away, won’t save the company as much as is widely thought.