Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Cab Driver Releases Documentary On What It's Like To Compete With Uber And Lyft People who follow San Francisco's transit industry are likely familiar with the name John Han — he's written, on and off, about the cab business for years on his blog, and he's a frequent
SF News After Lyft And Uber, Now Postmates And Caviar Delivery People Are Suing To Be Made Employees Following on the potentially major lawsuits against Uber and Lyft about their classification of drivers as independent contractors, delivery people working for services like Postmates, Instacart, and Caviar have also filed suit to
SF News As Uber And Lyft Drivers Fight For Employee Status, Others Look Down The Driverless Road Yesterday, drivers for Uber and Lyft won two partial victories in California as they seek to define their status as employees rather than independent contractors to confer benefits from minimum wage to the
SF News Disgruntled Lyft Drivers Plot Possible Strike SFist received a tip this week that a gang of Lyft drivers were might peeved about a lucrative promotion that was dangled by the company and then, apparently, rescinded rather quickly. The deal
Arts & Entertainment Video: Funny Or Die Mocks Uber Evilness An Apology From Uber from Funny Or Die In one of those inevitabilities of internet comedy, Funny or Die has just satirized the various Uber scandals and controversies of the last year, including
SF News DeSoto Cab Co. Rebrands Itself As Flywheel The latest chapter in the rideshare-taxi war has San Francisco's oldest cab company, DeSoto, letting go of its entire brand and image in favor of aligning itself with the Flywheel taxi-hailing app. As
SF News Now Uber Drivers Want You To Tip We all knew it was too good to last, right? Well, Uber drivers, now envious that Lyft and regular taxi drivers get nice gratuities from passengers, are pushing to get a gratuity function
SF News Will Uber And Lyft Be Forced To Treat Drivers As Employees? A federal judge struck a blow to the business models of "ride-sharing" companies like Uber and Lyft by suggesting that it's not legal to treat drivers as independent contractors, and the companies may
SF News DMV Pulls U-Turn, Retracts Requirement For Commercial Plates On Uber/Lyft Cars California DMV Director Jean Shiomoto retracted Vehicle Industry News alert VIN 2015-01 on Friday night, which affected ride hailing operators like Uber, Lyft and Sidecar. Specifically, the now defunct alert claimed that "Any
SF News DMV Declares That Uber/Lyft Drivers Need Commercial License Plates "Any passenger vehicle used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation, or profit is a commercial vehicle," reads a recent advisory issued by the California DMV with regard to Uber,
SF News Lyft Vehicles Lose Furry Pink 'Carstaches' For Good The furry pink front bumper mustache on Lyft's fleet of cars was equally iconic and annoying. So, in a rebranding effort, it's been shaved and replaced with a small, arguably more tasteful, glowing
SF News NYE Ride Guide: Battle Royale For Rideshares, Taxis, And Mass Transit As the proverbial ball begins to drop on this New Year's Eve, there's plenty to eat, do, and drink, as we've underscored in this guide to the best fetes in town. While getting
SF News SF, LA District Attorneys Suing Uber Uber, recently embroiled in a scandal involving not-so-veiled threats against unfriendly journalists, accused of operating illegally by the city of Portland, banned in Delhi, and ordered to halt operations in Spain and Thailand,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Reprieve For Inflatable Pleasanton Snowman The giant inflatable Pleasanton snowman will stay for Christmas after all. [CBS SF] Those expensive palm trees on the Bay Bridge? They're rotting and falling apart. [Chronicle] A USPS truck fire has damaged,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Thomas Keller Gets Dissed Meet Jirayut Latthivongskorn, a Thai national who is UCSF's first undocumented med student. [National Journal] Ten years in, Eater NY says, Thomas Keller's Per Se is “showing its age” and its “luxuries have
SF News Another Private Bus Service Enters The Marina Commute Race, This One With Twitter Money Though we've already bemoaned the pompously named Chariot that caters to Marina folk, everyone seems to want a seat on the bus privatization bus. Now the San Francisco Business Times introduces us to
SF News Angry Cabbies Now Sporting Anti-Uber Bumper Stickers Cabbies fed up with UberX taking all their business now have bumper stickers on their cabs that make joking reference to the case of Patrick Karajah, the UberX driver who allegedly attacked passenger
SF News New Lyft Service Lets Commuting Drivers Pick Up Passengers Along Their Route To Work According to Lyft, around 80% of commuting drivers make their daily trek alone. So, the company is debuting a service called Driver Destination. Lonely commuters stand to gain $400 a month just picking
SF News Day Around The Bay: Twitter CFO's DM Fail Twitter CFO means to DM, tweets instead: "I think we should buy them." Remember, always screenshot the tweet! [Buzzfeed] Google removed a homophobic/gay killing game called “Ass Hunter” from the Android store.
SF News Geico's Leaked Stance On Coverage for Rideshare Drivers An internal sales-training document from Geico suggests an answer to the question of whether policyholders can give paid rides through Uber and Lyft while maintaining their personal coverage: Nope. "If a customer advises
SF News SFO Now A Battleground For Taxi And SuperShuttle Protests With Uber, Lyft and Sidecar now fair game at San Francisco International Airport, taxi and SuperShuttle drivers might be SOL at SFO. Nonetheless, each group of workers staged protests in the past two
SF News Green Cab Nears Breakdown A founder of the worker-owned, 16-vehicle Green Cab company, Mark Gruberg is in a tight spot. Mission Local reports that his business has been unable to find a new insurance policy from an
SF News Lyft Driver Thwarts Robbery Hammering home Lyft's reputation for friendliness, a driver for the rideshare company sprang from his Lyftmobile to thwart the robbery of a 67-year-old woman by four teenage girls, as CBS 5 is reporting.
SF News Uber, Lyft, And Sidecar All Now Legal At SFO We thought maybe Sidecar had struck some kind of sweetheart deal last week getting permits to drop off and pick up passengers at SFO, but it turns out the other rideshare companies got
Arts & Entertainment Lyft, Uber Mocked On <i>South Park</i> It was only a matter of time before the ride-sharing craze made it onto South Park, and now it has. Watch as Timmy starts a company called Handicar, which quickly expands into more
