SF News Study: Ride-Hail Carpooling Could Cut Traffic By 75 Percent Traffic around the Bay Area has jumped 70 percent since 2010, with San Francisco reported as having the third worst traffic in the country. With those frustrating figures in mind, a new study
SF News New Law Means Tougher Background Checks On California Ride-Hail Drivers A new law set to take effect January 1 means ride-hail companies like Uber and Lyft will soon know much more about their drivers' past deeds — and allows for serious fines should employers
SF News Tacolicious, Southern Pacific Brewing Top 2016 Lyft Destinations December is almost over, which means it's that time of year when everyone's favorite brands drop some variation of the 2016 "top ten" list. Not wanting to be left out of the fun,
SF News Elderly Ride-Hail Pool Passenger Kidnapped By Driver In Richmond District Just a few days after the driver for a ride hail company was accused of taking a San Francisco passenger to a remote location and making unwanted sexual advances, another driver is being
SF News San Francisco Ride-Hail Driver Kidnaps Drunk Passenger Police are seeking a ride hail company driver, after his passenger says he briefly kidnapped her instead of taking her to her destination. Police say that the incident happened at 2:23 a.
SF News SFMTA Blames Uber And Lyft For San Francisco's Traffic Woes San Francisco has the third worst traffic in the country, and the Bay Area at large has seen a 70 percent increase over the past six years. As with many things in life,
SF News The BART Connection To SFO Is Losing Riders Fast As Uber/Lyft Airport Rides Skyrocket In some not so surprising news, ever since Uber and Lyft have been given free rein to pick up and drop off passengers at SFO, ridership on BART's SFO line has been steadily
SF News Uber Drivers To Join Nationwide Living-Wage Strike Tuesday San Francisco Uber drivers are gearing up for a strike tomorrow as part of a nationwide labor-protest seeking a livable wage. Reuters reports that the action is being organized by Fight For $15,
SF News Bankrupt Yellow Cab Is Now For Sale That beleaguered staple of San Francisco, Yellow Cab Cooperative, is for sale. The Examiner reports that the almost 40-year-old taxi company just couldn't overcome the one-two punch of a series of lawsuits stemming
SF News Lyft Trading Mustache For Glowing LED Beacon That Can Display Your Name Rolling out in the new year wherever Lyft operates and in several cities — Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco — in time for the New Year's Eve rush, drivers for Uber's chief rival
SF News We May Now Have Upwards Of 40,000 Uber And Lyft Drivers Operating In SF The number of drivers for transportation network companies Uber and Lyft who operate in the companies' hometown of San Francisco might vary wildly from month to month, or even from Saturday night to
SF News Where Should Transit Companies Drop Off Their SF Passengers? Opponents of headlines with question marks in headlines should probably stop reading now: There's not a great answer to the query within. We already know that it's dangerous for transit company drivers — that's
SF News Sen. Al Franken Takes Uber And Lyft To Task Over Bias Report Following up on a National Bureau of Economic Research report released last month which found that Uber and Lyft drivers in Seattle and Boston discriminated against passengers with African American-sounding names, Senator Al
SF News Study: Uber Drivers Are More Likely To Cancel Your Ride If You're Black An Uber driver is twice as likely to cancel a ride if the passenger requesting it has a black-sounding name, a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds. The study,
SF News Fake Rideshare Driver Takes Bite Out Of SF Fare A man who thought he was hopping into his hired ride got a nasty shock Friday, when the driver turned out to be focused on something other that customer service. It was 4
SF News Peak 2016: Luxor Cabs Seeks Legacy Business Designation Thoroughly disrupted by contractor-based ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft, 1928- founded Luxor Cabs has filed with the Planning Department to receive benefits reserved for so-called legacy businesses. Socketsite snapped up the news,
SF News Ford Is Buying SF-Based Shuttle Service Chariot; Also They're Taking Over Bay Area Bike Share Automobile Goliath Ford today announced it will buy Chariot, the private shuttle service based in San Francisco born from startup incubator Y Combinator, in a move that speaks to the company's stated goal
SF News Google's Waze-Based Carpool App Launching In San Francisco, To Compete With Uber Google may have hoped to wade gently into the ride-hailing waters jealously guarded by San Francisco's Uber and Lyft, but news today that its Waze-based carpool app will be expanding to San Francisco
SF News Lyft Rebuffed In Buyout Efforts By Google, Uber, And Others Lyft is coming to a strange sort of crossroads. The second largest ride-hailing company in the United States behind Uber (but by a mile) is seeking a variety of suitors for a buyout.
SF News Weekend Reminder: You Can Legally Get Drunk In San Francisco Cabs So it's Friday afternoon and you're probably sitting at your desk thinking about weekend plans. Maybe heading out to dinner, or meeting friends at a bar? Many of you, no doubt, will end
SF News Ford Promises Self-Driving Taxis With No Steering Wheels By 2021 Another major player just joined the race to bring self-driving cars to the masses. The Chronicle reports that the CEO of Ford announced yesterday plans to put fully autonomous taxis on the roads
SF News General Motors Just Tried (And Failed) To Acquire Lyft Lyft investor General Motors is apparently not content with its 9 percent stake in the ride-hail company, as The Information reports that the car manufacturer just made an offer to buy Lyft outright.
SF News New Feature Means You Can Make Your Lyft Driver Wait While You Run Errands In a press release that is sure to send Lyft drivers completely off the wall, the company announced that passengers will soon be able to add multiple stops to a trip. While CNet
SF News Lyft Loses As Much As $50 Million/Month, President Calls It 'Investing' When asked about reports that transportation network Lyft has been losing as much as $50 million a month, company President John Zimmer could have denied that amount, or offered another figure. But at
SF News Lyft Goes After Uber Black With New 'Premier' Offering Ride-hail company Lyft today announced that it has expanded its offerings in what amounts to a clear attempt to move into turf long occupied by its main rival, Uber. Lyft, which has a
