SF News Taxi Company Crowdfunds For Survival As SFMTA Hands Drivers Lump Sum Checks How does a struggling local taxicab company compete with the cheap and unregulated competition of Uber and Lyft? Apparently, the same way that people these days pay unexpected medical bills, bail their own
SF News Ongoing Uber Drama: Travis' Texts, Big Name Departures, And Lyft Is Doing Awesome The endless drama unfolding over at Uber might as well be programmed by Bravo TV. Here's the latest: In the lawsuit filed against Uber by Waymo, we get a look at a bunch
SF News Uber And Lyft Permanently Banned From Most Of Market Street Under New Plan A new design is emerging for #sanfrancisco's Market Street #sfmuni #bicycling https://t.co/eVEw0l8EVQ pic.twitter.com/KoOqTmtQ43— Human Streets (@humanstreetssf) July 31, 2017 The Better Market Street Plan, which has been
SF News Uber To Launch Credit Card, Likely With Rewards, Later This Year Perhaps in a bid at strengthening customer loyalty, Uber is going to be launching its own co-branded credit card later this year in partnership with Barclays. Barclays made the announcement via the Associated
SF News Lyft Driver Attacked By 8 People After She Says They Can't Fit In Her Car A Lyft driver in Sacramento was brutally beaten by eight young adults after she refused to take them all in her six-passenger vehicle. The Sacramento Bee reports via driver Nakayla Hall's Facebook page
SF News Uber Initiates New $15 Lost Item Return Fee Leaderless and scandal-impaired rideshare giant Uber has taken the curious, counterintuitive tack of adding another fee in order to win back customers who are deleting the app. Engadget reports that Uber has quietly
SF News Lyft Gets In On Self-Driving Car Game With 'Level Five' & New Workforce In Palo Alto Lyft is nipping at the heels of main competitor Uber in joining the race to bring autonomous vehicles onto the road, but they're doing so with a slightly different and they say more
SF News You'll Now Be Charged For Making An Uber Driver Wait Two Minutes, And Tipping Goes Live In NY, SF & LA The promised addition of an in-app tipping option for Uber rolls out today in a few dozen American and Canadian cities, and will be live nationwide by the end of July. Also today,
SF News Watch Stanley Roberts Shame Double-Parking Uber And Lyft Drivers KRON 4's Stanley Roberts' gig isn't for everyone — it takes a very specific type of temperament to withstand the confrontation he invites daily as he seeks to highlight bad Bay Area behavior. But
SF News Alleged Road Rage Dirt Bikers Arrested In March Beating Of Lyft Driver In San Francisco You likely remember the tale: Back in March of this year, a driver on a San Francisco stretch of 101 was surrounded and attacked by a group of dirt bike riders, apparently because
SF News Watch Everyone Violate The F-Market Transit Lane Pop quiz, hot shot: Who are the biggest traffic scofflaws on the F-Market tracks near Fisherman's Wharf? Your choices: A) Uber drivers B) Pedicabs C) Illegal U-turners D) Lyft drivers If you're KRON
SF News Report: Uber And Lyft Bloating SF Traffic By 15-20 Percent Rideshare behemoths Uber and Lyft purport to provide convenience for riders, but a new study drives home the point that these two companies in particular are burdening San Francisco with massive and broader
SF News Not Surprisingly, UberPool Has Been A Major Loss Leader Are you the "master" of your UberPool? Leaked internal documents obtained by Buzzfeed reveal some of UberPool's weird terminology, and the company's total hemorrhaging of money, passengers, and drivers. (We've known these prices
SF News Uber Changes Pricing, Starts Charging Us What They Think We're Willing To Pay The days of super-cheap Uber fares arguably one of the last things the ride-hail company still has going for it appear to be numbered. Uber has quietly been changing the way it's been
SF News Lyft Teams With Google's Waymo In Hopes of Driving Uber Under In the ongoing war between Uber and Lyft for ride-sharing supremacy in the not-so distant future where human drivers are rendered obsolete, the latest battle has gone in favor of Lyft. The New
SF News Uber Under Criminal Investigation Over Shady 'Greyball' Scheme While the likelihood of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick doing the perp walk in cuffs still seems pretty remote, the latest scandalous development with the rideshare company we love to hate puts Uber squarely
SF News Lyft's Pride Float Queen Claims Lyft Refused Her Rides Rideshare service Lyft has managed to avoid many of the high-profile public relations disasters of its larger competitor Uber, generally eluding terrible headlines while Uber has experienced a nonstop parade of recent scandals
SF News Uber Created Fake Lyft Accounts To Track Rival Drivers In Program Codenamed 'Hell' Uber sure knows how to codename a top-secret, legally suspect software program. A month after revelations that the ride-hailing giant used a system dubbed "greyball" to evade regulators by developing software to detect
SF News How Uber Games Its Drivers To Get Them To Drive More Uber makes no secret of its ambitions to replace human drivers ASAP, testing autonomous cars in a highly public manner. But for the moment, and even for the next decade, the ride-hailing company
SF News Ugh: Lyft CEO Declares 'We're Woke' As customers give Uber hell over a steady stream of recent scandals, its distant second in the American ride-hailing market, Lyft, has been the beneficiary of tremendous good will, ride-hail dollars, and app
SF News Victim Of Road Rage Biker Gang Beating On 101 Speaks Out From Hospital 35-year-old Alex Quintana, the victim in last week's savage beating by a group of motorcyclists involved in a sideshow on Highway 101 in San Francisco, is speaking out from his hospital bed and
SF News Double-Parking Uber And Lyft Drivers Scramble To Beat Bus Cameras It's one of those moments of media confluence: One the same day that the SF Chronicle announces via headline that "Parking scofflaws can’t escape Muni bus cameras," KRON 4's Stanley Roberts shows
SF News Is Influx Of Out Of Town Uber And Lyft Drivers Why Bay Area Traffic Stinks? It's hard to know what to believe in the war of words over the Bay Area's traffic woes. A 2015 study put San Francisco third in the country for congestion, behind only LA
SF News SF Homeless Czar Apologizes For Remarks Overheard, Publicized By Lyft Driver Kevin Ebach, a 25-year-old San Francisco Lyft driver and educator who overheard comments from two male passengers that he considered to be harsh and disparaging toward others, including homeless people, posted about the
SF News Lyft Surpasses Uber In App Store Downloads As #DeleteUber Trend Continues Uber's loss is Lyft's gain as the long-running battle between the two San Francisco-based ride-hailing companies takes on a political valence. Reports (possibly spurious) that Uber had continued to operate to-and-from New York's
