SF News Will Self-Driving Cars Ruin San Francisco? Self-driving cars sound pretty sweet, right? The idea of a safer, more reliable way to travel via automobile has an intuitive appeal — after all, according to the CDC, there are over 30,000
SF News Surprise! Leaked Documents Show Uber Drivers Don't Make That Much Citing a combination of leaked documents and data provided by Uber in response to requests by the publication, BuzzFeed News reports that Uber drivers in three large US markets make substantially less than
SF News Treasurer Gives Uber And Lyft Drivers Longer To Obtain Business Licenses, Forgives Fines Drivers for transportation network companies like Lyft and Uber who were told, depending on whom you ask, somewhat abruptly in April that they would need to obtain business licenses, are being granted two
SF News Man Hops Into Tenderloin Car Thinking It's His Taxi, Gets Robbed It what appears to be semi-common occurrence these days, early morning Wednesday a man reportedly got into a random car thinking it was his taxi. Unfortunately for the unnamed 49-year-old, KRON 4 reports
SF News In Retro Move, Lyft Lets You Book Rides 24 Hours In Advance On-demand ride-hailing service Lyft just went old school with a new option to book your ride up to 24 hours ahead. It's a test run for now, says Mashable, but the vintage, taxi-style
SF News Day Around The Bay: Most Americans Have Never Used Uber Or Lyft Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you — sign up here. Dead & Company, the band featuring three original members
SF News Self-Driving Muni Buses? Officials Apply For 'Smart City' Grant In a bid to completely change the way San Franciscans get around their city, officials yesterday presented a vision of a remade citywide transportation system. According to the Chronicle, numerous transportation experts and
SF News Attn. Ride-Share Drivers Picking Up Passengers In Taxi Lanes: Stanley Roberts Will Find You As anybody knows, if you see Stanley Roberts, you've been behaving badly. The SFPD and SFMTA are cracking down on Uber and Lyft drivers trying to pick up passengers who are attempting to
SF News Key Plaintiff Objects To $100M Uber Class Action Settlement As Drivers Criticize Lead Lawyer Recently SFist wrote of a $27 million proposed agreement for drivers to settle with Lyft, a deal to keep them contractors rather than employees in California. That settlement was brokered by the same
SF News Google-Owned Waze Gets In The Ride-Hail Game, Launches New Carpooling App Google just fired a rather loud shot across the bow of both Uber and Lyft. With the release of Waze Rider, the Google-owned Waze has its eye on a significant portion of ride-hail
SF News Lyft Agrees To $27 Million Settlement Keeping CA Drivers As Contractors The big fight over whether ride-hailing drivers are contractors or employees — a contest that, pundits proposed, might threaten the very foundation of business models for the likes of Lyft and Uber — is close
SF News Uber And Lyft Pull Out Of Austin (Perhaps Hoping Public Outcry Will Ensue) Having lost a significant ballot vote on Saturday in the city of Austin, ride-share companies Uber and Lyft both announced they were pulling out of the city completely, and as BuzzFeed reports, both
SF News Uber Surge Pricing Getting Nixed, Says Engineer, But Company Quickly Denies That A report out this morning from the venerable NPR claiming that Uber intends to do away with surge pricing caught many users of the ride-hail app completely off guard. The piece, titled "Uber
SF News Uber Insists It Will Not Add Tipping Function To App In response to reactions like SFist's this week to the growing idea that Uber drivers want passengers to tip them in cash, Uber has just put up a new official statement on Medium
SF News Like It Did For Uber Drivers, Treasurer's Office Orders Airbnb Hosts To Get Business Licenses Earlier this month, roughly 37,000 drivers for Uber and Lyft were mailed letters from San Francisco City Treasurer Jose Cisneros indicating that, as contractors, they must apply for business licenses to operate
SF News Business Licenses For Some SF Uber And Lyft Drivers Cost Hundreds More Than Expected Many of the 37,000 or so San Francisco Uber and Lyft drivers who learned last week that they were required to have a business license to ply their trade in the city
SF News The Self-Driving Car Lobby Is Here, And It's Driven By Uber, Google, Lyft, Ford, And Volvo The usual suspects in the autonomous vehicle race are joining forces, forming a coalition to usher self-driving cars onto America's roads. According to a report from Reuters, five companies shaping up to be
SF News State Senate Panel Falls One Vote Short On Bill To Ban Surge Pricing For Uber And Lyft A California Senate committee blocked a bill this week that would have stopped Uber and Lyft from employing the dynamic fare pricing known as "surge" pricing. The AP reports that the measure fell
SF News SF's 37,000 Lyft and Uber Drivers Will Be Ordered To Get Business Licenses So much for promotional slogans like "Sign up and drive!" Uber and Lyft drivers operating in San Francisco, a number that may figure as high as 37,000, must obtain business licenses at
SF News Ripe For Mockery Lyft Ad Changed To Gentrification Critique On-point SF ad vandalism (what was Lyft thinking?) pic.twitter.com/SabcKYmTwf— Chad Woodford (@cjam) March 31, 2016 It's so perfectly set up that it almost seems like Mission District-based Lyft is in
SF News Expanding On Partnership, Lyft Drivers Can Now Rent GM Cars For Free (Sort Of) Lyft and GM have announced the next big phase of their partnership, unveiling Monday a plan to rent GM cars to Lyft drivers for the low cost of nothing — with a few stipulations
SF News Lyft App Not Approved By California Regulators For Calculating Fares Uber and Lyft have changed the taxi industry in many ways. The most obvious: supplanting the old-school meter that calculated distance by monitoring wheel rotations with a supposedly more accurate GPS meter. Measuring
SF News Uber, Lyft Drivers Struggle With Onerous Terms Of Partner-Leased Cars A photo posted by Uber (@uber) on Nov 19, 2015 at 9:56am PST It appears that in the case of some Uber and Lyft drivers, the ride-hail companies truly get them coming
SF News Online Sales of Lyft Mustaches And Uber Decals Raise Questions An online market for Uber decals and Lyft "glowstaches" has raised questions as to why anyone would pay for what drivers of the two ride-hail companies get for free. The decals, which are
SF News Day Around The Bay: Lyft Settles Class Action Suit, Drivers Remain Contractors Lyft just settled a class action lawsuit for $12.25 million. The result: Its drivers won’t be employees. [Wired] Is Apple expanding to San Jose? San Jose sure hopes so. [Business Times]
