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of Lyft drivers were might peeved about a lucrative promotion that was dangled by the company and then, apparently, rescinded rather quickly.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 Google Is Developing Its Own Uber For Driverless Cars Former allies Uber and Google look to be at odds as each plans for a future driven by autonomous taxis. It's going to be a race for several years, but it looks like
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 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 Sidecar Now Lets You Choose Women Drivers In response to the growing safety concerns swirling around Uber, which are now making national headlines that include the story of the woman in Boston raped by an UberX driver, smaller ride-share upstart
SF News Uber Commands $100 Surge Fares During Sydney Hostage Standoff, Apologizes Uber took some heat in Australia, and the international press, on Monday when the app started commanding quadruple-rate surge pricing in Sydney's central business district during what would become a 16-hour hostage crisis
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 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 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
