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
SF News Sidecar Just Won The Right To Operate At SFO In what the company is calling a "milestone agreement," Sidecar just became the first ride-share company to get a permit to operate at San Francisco International Airport. The service is expected to be
SF News Man Allegedly Bashed By Hammer-Wielding UberX Driver Could Lose An Eye The UberX driver accused of striking a passenger in the head with a hammer during a ride in San Francisco did not have a previous criminal record — but that fact didn't stop SF's
SF News UberX Driver Accused Of Bashing Passenger In Head With Hammer During SF Ride The timing on this one seems odd, doesn't it? According to the San Francisco Chronicle, an UberX driver pleaded not guilty in San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday after allegations that he bashed
SF News District Attorneys Call Uber, Lyft, And Sidecar 'A Continuing Threat To Consumers' [Updated] Bad news hit the desks of ride-share company execs this week: The district attorneys of S.F. and L.A. have teamed up to investigate Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar for a handful of
SF News Taxi Drivers and Cab Companies Are Escalating Their Losing Battle Against Uber and Lyft A recent estimate puts the dent that rideshare companies have put in the San Francisco taxi industry at 65 percent and that just in the last fifteen months. Though there has been much
SF News Lyft Kills Their Lyft Plus Program, Drivers Stuck With SUVs They Don't Want Remember how, just back in April, Lyft decided to launch a luxury SUV service in order to compete with Uber SUV? Well, it seems it didn't go so well, and the Chronicle reports
SF News Insurance Bill For Uber/Lyft Drivers Passes California Senate A compromise reached between California legislators and ride-share companies Uber and Lyft this week suggests that insurance companies may be asked to create a new type of policy specifically for peer-to-peer ride-sharing. As
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ebola In Sacramento? A patient who visited a West African country sometime in the last month has been put in isolation in a Sacramento hospital with some sort of symptoms, but despite the media freakout public
SF News Have You Hopped Into A Stranger's Car Mistaking It For An Uber? The epidemic of UberX/Lyft usage in our cities has led to the unfortunate trend of people jumping into the backseat of any idling vehicle that they think should be their ride home.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Whysk, A Transportation Startup Please enjoy this bit of humor from ClickHole, the Onion's brilliant sendup of all things viral and BuzzFeed-esque. It's all about an app, well, sort of... a company called Whysk that "gets people
SF News DeSoto Cab Wants To Turn Its Taxis Into Limo Sedans To Survive Among Uber, Lyft Of all the taxi companies pissed at how their business is suffering at the hands of Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, and others, DeSoto Cab Co.’s president Hansu Kim has been one of the
SF News Video: The War Between Taxis And 'Rideshares' When filmmaker and SF State student Max Maddox started seeing "so many mustached cars drive by," he was led to create "Taxi 2.0," a short documentary film "not just about the heated
SF News Uber Valued at $18.2 Billion, Now One Of The Biggest Companies In Bay Area With a new valuation on Friday that came with a $1.2 billion influx of cash, Uber is now second only to Facebook in terms of the pre-IPO investment sum that it has
SF News DeSoto Cab Head Says S.F. Cab Industry Could Collapse In 18 Months At the hands of Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar, yellow (and other color) taxis could be kaput in San Francisco in a year and a half, at least according to the president of one
SF News Ridesharing Companies Need Mayor Lee's Help Getting To The Airport San Francisco mayor and sharing economy advocate Ed Lee has found himself stuck in an awkward showdown between the regulators at San Francisco International Airport and rideshare companies like Lyft, Uber or Sidecar.
SF News Lyft To Start Offering 'Luxury' Rides In White Ford Explorers This week Lyft is set to start testing a new, upscale SUV service in San Francisco in a clear bid to compete with Uber's more luxurious chauffeuring options. The first half dozen SUV
SF News Have AirBnB, Lyft, Etc. Made Us More Trusting? Once upon a time, everyone thought that online dating was only going to lead to more serial killers. But now we know better: There aren't any more serial killers than there were before,
SF News Now There's A Startup For Renting Cars To Uber And Lyft Drivers In the disruptive, circular world of the sharing economy, someone was inevitably going to find a way to sell resources back to people who want to get in on the action. Enter Breeze,
SF News Seattle Votes To Curb Number Of Ride-Share Drivers Following in the footsteps of places like Paris, where taxi unions have a stronger foothold, the Seattle City Council voted last night to cap the number of Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar drivers in
Arts & Entertainment 'Everything But The News' Takes On S.F. Ridesharing Everything But The News is a news parody show, similar to The Daily Show, but with more PBS-focused jokes. In it, freelance reporter/out and proud Canadian Steve Goldbloom ventures throughout the Bay
SF News Attractive Dames Used To Lure Drivers Over To Uber Town Car drivers and cabbies alike hear the siren song of Uber calling their names. And why not? Uber drivers could make $550 in a day including fares. In an effort to get
SF News A Cabbie Takes The Stairs, Becomes Target In Taxi War Earlier today, in front of the Safeway at Church and Market Streets, a cab driver nearly drove down the stairs into the busy intersection. Although there were reportedly no casualties other than the
SF News Uber Cars Attacked By Striking Taxi Drivers In Paris One place in the world where the tension between traditional cab drivers and on-demand car services like Uber is getting most heated is France, and a taxi strike at Paris airports Monday turned
SF News Lyft And Sidecar Won't Save You From High New Year's Eve Fares Either Although Uber has already warned riders of high fares on New Year's Eve, competing rideshare companies Lyft and Sidecar have sent out their own heads-up press releases about higher-than-usual fares for New Year's
