Business & Tech Uber and Lyft Both in Rush To Offer ‘Free’ Rides to Get Vaccine (Many of Which Won’t Be Free) The two competing rideshare giants announce two different competing plans to offer free rides for vaccine shots, but the fine print shows plenty of these rides will not actually be free.
Business & Tech Lyft Is Contemplating an Uber Eats-Style Food Delivery Pivot The rideshare company thinks it can find a way to deliver food without tacking on high commission fees, which probably involves blowing ever-larger amounts of other people’s money.
SF News Election Limbo Headlines: Uber and Lyft Get Their Wish, Prop 22 Passes The dialysis regulation measure Prop 23 appears to be going down, Mark Kelly beat Martha McSally for the Arizona Senate seat, and as promised Facebook and Twitter flagged Trump's false claims about winning the election and the Democrats trying to "steal" it.
SF Politics Uber and Lyft’s Prop 22 Only Up By 3 Points in Poll, Despite $186 Million War Chest An all-time California record of campaign cash has not yet sealed the deal for Lyft and Uber in their campaign to ensure their drivers are not classified as employees.
Business & Tech Uber and Lyft Will Not Shut Down at Midnight After Last-Minute Reprieve Lyft was about to shut down all California rideshare operations at the stroke of midnight, but an appeals court granted a reprieve only about 12 hours before that would have happened.
Business & Tech As California Labor Case Heads For Appeal, Uber Says It May Halt Operations In State Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi gave an interview on MSNBC Wednesday morning saying that the company would likely have to shut down operations in California for at least several months if it is forced to make all its drivers employees.
Business & Tech Lyft Is Laying Off Nearly 1,000 Workers, Furloughing 300 More Lyft just announced that it will lay off 17 percent of its workforce, or 982 people, in order to address losses that it faces due to pandemic lockdowns. And employees say they were mistakenly all sent an email earlier this week using an insensitive name for the cost-cutting project.
Business & Tech Lyft Pivots To ‘Essential Deliveries’ Now That No One is Riding Anywhere Lyft is generating a little more revenue for drivers who’ve taken a hit, but the new program will cater to companies and nonprofits instead of individual delivery customers.
Business & Tech Lyft E-Bike Users Balk At Price Hike Users of Lyft's previously flammable Bay Wheels e-bikes are in revolt this week after the company announced price hikes effective March 2 that make the formerly cheap monthly membership option significantly less cheap.
Business & Tech Lyft Is Being Sued By 20 Victims In Second Sexual-Assault Suit A second lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Lyft in a case involving 20 cases of sexual assault involving drivers. And this suit joins a separate one filed in September by the same law firm that covers 14 other cases of assault.
Business & Tech Study Finds That Black and LGBTQ People Still Have Rideshare Drivers Cancel On Them More Often Despite changes to the information drivers see before they accept a ride, drivers for Uber and Lyft still appear to be biased against picking up black and LGBTQ people according to a newly published study.
Business & Tech Gig-Worker Bill Signed By Governor, Rideshare and Delivery Apps Unhappy As expected, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 5 into law today, meaning that, at least in theory, companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash will not be able to relegate the majority of their workforces — the drivers — to contractor status.
Business & Tech ‘Gig Worker’ Wage And Benefits Bill Passes Both Chambers Of Legislature, Likely To Become Law The gig may be up for the so-called unicorn startups who’ve coasted on crazy cheap labor, as California is poised to become the first state in the nation to make companies classify independent contractors as employees.
Business & Tech Lyft Hit With Sexual Assault Lawsuit From 14 Different Women Lyft has allegedly received more than 100 rape and assault claims in California alone, and the victims say the company "chooses to stonewall" on prosecuting drivers. Now 14 women are suing.
Business & Tech Uber Driver Caravan Descends On Company HQ, Joined By Pete Buttigieg That convoy of Uber and Lyft drivers that drove up from Southern California to stage a demonstration in Sacramento on Wednesday made their way, predictably, to protest outside Uber's SF headquarters on Tuesday.
Business & Tech Uber and Lyft Drivers Plan Protest Caravan To Fight For Employee Rights Disgruntled rideshare drivers from all over the state plan to storm the statehouse in their vehicles next week, and don’t be surprised if they raise a little hell at Uber’s downtown SF headquarters too.
SF News Lyft Driver On Peninsula Accused Of Raping Woman Who Passed Out In His Car A driver for Lyft has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault after a 25-year-old woman says she was picked up in a San Mateo bar and driven to the man's home in the Central Valley while she slept.
SF News Uber and Lyft Account For Twice As Much SF Traffic As We Thought Lyft and Uber's real internal numbers show these two rideshare companies generate twice as much congestion as had been previously estimated.
Business & Tech Women Complain Of Inadequate Responses From Lyft to Harassment Complaints About Drivers Lyft may be on the road to losing its "woke" image, in comparison to Uber, as the Washington Post reports on a pattern of cases in which complaints about drivers from women resulted in little or no disciplinary action.
SF News Lyft Pulls E-Bikes Off Streets After Two Catch Fire Lyft's adventure in e-bike rentals appears to be off to a bad start after two of the company's bikes had batteries catch fire in the last several days.
Business & Tech Uber and Lyft Pushed Drivers To Email State Legislators To Oppose Bill That Would Make Them Employees Both Uber and Lyft are anxious about a bill that could potentially make California the first state where rideshare drivers — and all delivery-app drivers — can't be classified as contractors.
Business & Tech Rideshare Vehicles Are Hotbeds For Germs, Moreso Than Taxis, Says Study Those dangling bottles of hand-sanitizer might be more than just a courtesy! A small-scale study comparing swabs taken from rideshare vehicles with those taken in taxis and rental cars found that the rideshare vehicles had the highest overall presence of bacteria and other germs.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Uber / Lyft Driver Strike Kicks Off SF School Board President says he was racially profiled at a Walgreens, Monday's dead whale gets necropsy, and A's pitcher Mike Fiers pitches no-hitter.
Business & Tech Lyft Reverts To Old-Timey Taxi Line In San Diego Airport Test Everything old is new again with rideshare company Lyft at San Diego Airport. The company is using San Diego for a pilot program in which Lyft users will be asked to go to a specially designated taxi line to meet up with a driver.
SF News A City Tax On Uber/Lyft Rides Could Be Headed for the November Ballot The tax would need a two-thirds majority to pass, and aspires to raise $30 million for street infrastructure improvements.
