SF News Waze Carpool App Expands To All Of California Today It's nice to occasionally see some developments in the obscenely well-funded rideshare industry that do not involve dude-bro executive malfeasance, regulatory shenanigans, or sexual harassment. So SFist is pleased to report that the
SF News Uber Terminating More Than 20 People In Sexual Harassment Probe Uber's overall reputation has taken a lot of hits in 2017, not the least of which were allegations in February of widespread sexual harassment and an overall culture of sexism from a former
SF News Uber Lost 'Only' $708 Million Last Quarter, Top Finance Exec Resigns The Montgomery Burns of tech companies, Uber, revealed their 2017 first quarter earnings Wednesday, and lost $708 million says the San Francisco Business Times. But that’s “actually good by Uber standards” according
SF News Not Surprisingly, UberPool Has Been A Major Loss Leader Are you the "master" of your UberPool? Leaked internal documents obtained by Buzzfeed reveal some of UberPool's weird terminology, and the company's total hemorrhaging of money, passengers, and drivers. (We've known these prices
SF News Uber Changes Pricing, Starts Charging Us What They Think We're Willing To Pay The days of super-cheap Uber fares arguably one of the last things the ride-hail company still has going for it appear to be numbered. Uber has quietly been changing the way it's been
SF News San Francisco Sues Uber To Get Local Driver Information We first heard about it last week, and now City Attorney Dennis Herrera makes it official, filing a lawsuit to compel Uber to hand over the names and addresses of all its local
SF News Uber Driver Abducted At Gunpoint; Different Uber Driver Crashes Two Cars In Santa Rosa An off-duty Uber driver was allegedly abducted at gunpoint Saturday night and forced to drive to Richmond, where his car was then stolen. As ABC 7 reports, the driver says that a man
SF News Uber Now Shows You Your Rider Rating More Prominently Uber riders with good luck, decent hygiene, and few interpersonal deficiencies can afford to forget that they're not just rating drivers: Their drivers are rating them, too. But with Uber's latest app update
SF News Uber Created Fake Lyft Accounts To Track Rival Drivers In Program Codenamed 'Hell' Uber sure knows how to codename a top-secret, legally suspect software program. A month after revelations that the ride-hailing giant used a system dubbed "greyball" to evade regulators by developing software to detect
SF News Ride-Hail Driver With Gang Affiliation Gets Carjacked In SoMa By Rival Gang Member A male ride-hail driver he could drive for Uber, Lyft, or neither got into a fight with another man early Sunday morning apparently because of their respective gang affiliations. The 37-year-old driver was
SF News Read The Thoughts Of A Younger Travis Kalanick On This Eight-Year-Old Wordpress Blog At the ripe young age of 32, back in 2009, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick apparently launched a Wordpress blog called Swooshing, and for some reason he's never taken it down. The name is
SF News Ugh: Lyft CEO Declares 'We're Woke' As customers give Uber hell over a steady stream of recent scandals, its distant second in the American ride-hailing market, Lyft, has been the beneficiary of tremendous good will, ride-hail dollars, and app
SF News Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars Off The Road After One Flips Over In Arizona Collision BREAKING: Self-driving Uber vehicle on it’s side after a collision in Tempe, AZ. Photos by @fresconews user Mark Beach pic.twitter.com/5NCF2KG0rW— Fresco News (@fresconews) March 25, 2017 Uber once again
SF News Uber Board Member Arianna Huffington Says Travis Kalanick Isn't Going Anywhere, OK? Uber offered up a rare conference call for the news media Tuesday with just a few hours notice ahem, SFist was not invited in which board member Arianna Huffington tried to make the
SF News Uber Executive Exodus: Company President, Maps Leader, And More Bail Uber president of ride-sharing Joe Jones, the company's second in command who was poached from a position at Target just six months ago, is leaving the company in a huff. His departure, complete
SF News Uber Exec Who Left Previous Job At Google Over Sexual Harassment Allegations Is Fired Uber's woeful month continues with the ignominious departure of senior vice president of engineering Amit Singhal, forced to resign by company CEO Travis Kalanick after tech publication Recode started asking questions about Singhal's
SF News SF Homeless Czar Apologizes For Remarks Overheard, Publicized By Lyft Driver Kevin Ebach, a 25-year-old San Francisco Lyft driver and educator who overheard comments from two male passengers that he considered to be harsh and disparaging toward others, including homeless people, posted about the
SF News Uber Lost More Than 200,000 Customers In #DeleteUber Campaign Though they were, it turns out, falsely accused of trying to break up a taxi strike at JFK Airport last weekend, the social media response was nonetheless swift and damaging, and we now
SF News Lyft Surpasses Uber In App Store Downloads As #DeleteUber Trend Continues Uber's loss is Lyft's gain as the long-running battle between the two San Francisco-based ride-hailing companies takes on a political valence. Reports (possibly spurious) that Uber had continued to operate to-and-from New York's
SF News As Thousands Delete Their Uber Apps Over JFK Story, Uber Denies Trying To Break Up Taxi Strike Following reports that Uber was still operating to and from JFK Airport in New York on Saturday during a taxi strike in response to Trump's immigration order, a call went out on social
SF News Uber Finally Convinced By DMV To Yank Self-Driving Cars Off SF Streets A week after boldly defying California officials and arguing that they had every right to test their self-driving vehicles with paying customers inside, Uber has relented and pulled its self-driving cars off the
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 Assures Worried Customers It Will Not 'Publicly Display' Your Ride History An Uber ride to a Planned Parenthood clinic. A weekly ride to an address that hosts AA meetings. Early morning pickups at your coworker's address. Ride-hail company Uber knows intimate information about its
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
