SF News Sen. Al Franken Takes Uber And Lyft To Task Over Bias Report Following up on a National Bureau of Economic Research report released last month which found that Uber and Lyft drivers in Seattle and Boston discriminated against passengers with African American-sounding names, Senator Al
SF News Flywheel Taxi (Née DeSoto) Sues Uber For Predatory Pricing Uber is on the receiving end of another lawsuit this week, and this time it's not from the ride-hail company's "driver-partners". Rather, according to the Chronicle, in a lawsuit filed yesterday in federal
SF News You May Soon Be Served Ads On Your Phone During Uber Rides Kind of like those TV screens in the back of taxis only more insidious, Uber is set to begin serving ads to your cell phone during trips via a new partnership that makes
SF News Video: Uber's Self-Driving Vehicles Hit The Streets Of SF A video posted by Eve Batey (@evelb) on Sep 3, 2016 at 10:17am PDT Heads up! Uber's autonomous cars have arrived, and they appear to taking test runs all over San Francisco.
SF News Google's Waze-Based Carpool App Launching In San Francisco, To Compete With Uber Google may have hoped to wade gently into the ride-hailing waters jealously guarded by San Francisco's Uber and Lyft, but news today that its Waze-based carpool app will be expanding to San Francisco
SF News Uber Is Testing Pre-Paid, Flat-Rate Rides, And They're Already Sold Out In SF Maybe you, like I, received a notification from Uber regarding “Uber Plus,” a new subscription service that Forbes reports is intended to foster customer loyalty. Did you act fast? In San Francisco, Uber
SF News Lyft Rebuffed In Buyout Efforts By Google, Uber, And Others Lyft is coming to a strange sort of crossroads. The second largest ride-hailing company in the United States behind Uber (but by a mile) is seeking a variety of suitors for a buyout.
SF News Weekend Reminder: You Can Legally Get Drunk In San Francisco Cabs So it's Friday afternoon and you're probably sitting at your desk thinking about weekend plans. Maybe heading out to dinner, or meeting friends at a bar? Many of you, no doubt, will end
SF News Shifting Into High Gear, Uber Will Begin Driverless Car Service In Pittsburgh Within Weeks “We are going commercial,” Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced to Bloomberg Businessweek with regard to the company's decision to allow — conscript? — customers into using its driverless cars in Pittsburgh. “This can’t just
SF News New Feature Means You Can Make Your Lyft Driver Wait While You Run Errands In a press release that is sure to send Lyft drivers completely off the wall, the company announced that passengers will soon be able to add multiple stops to a trip. While CNet
SF News Chinese Uber Rival Buys Uber China, Ending Expensive Fight Not one to readily admit defeat, bullish Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has come closer than ever in a blog post to the Uber Newsroom titled "Uber China Merges with Didi Chuxing." It's less
SF News Uber's In-App Response To Gun Violence Is Weird And Tone Deaf Following on their kind and mildly helpful response in the wake of the mass shooting of LGBT people in Orlando they were giving free rides all the following weekend to and from various
SF News Uber Will Stop (Telling You How Much It Is) Surge Pricing Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Surge pricing, on principle, is going nowhere, but the dreaded lightning bolt indicating exactly by what factor prices will be increased is (soon to
SF News Uber's Two-Minute Wait Limit Comes To SF This Month A series of new Uber features that Bloomberg characterizes as aimed at appeasing (now litigious) drivers (without increasing lowered fares for them) are set to debut. For riders, the most pertinent among them
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 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 Stymied In Australian State, Protests With 15,000 Printed Emails Delivered By Horse And Buggy After the Australian state of Queensland passed legislation to stamp out Uber last month with punishing fines to drivers using the app, the $50 billion valued company did what any imperious, overvalued child
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 If Uber Drivers Start Demanding Tips And Only Waiting Two Minutes At The Curb, I'm Done The entire value and convenience propositions of using Uber could soon be out the window as it's becoming increasingly obvious that drivers would like to be getting cash tips, and as Uber announces
SF News Uber Paying Off Drivers To The Tune Of $100M So They Can Keep Them As Contractors Welp, that big class-action lawsuit we've been talking about for over a year has been settled, along with a similar suit in Massachusetts, that we and a number of legal experts thought was
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 Uber Passenger In SF Reveals Road Rage Chase That Killed Pedestrian; Also, Judge Compares Uber To Silk Road The ride-hailing app that everyone loves to use and loves to hate, Uber, is once again in the news today for several reasons. First off, the company has just released its first ever
SF News Uber Sends Private Investigator To Question Former Employee Suspected Of Leaking 'Rape' Searches The extraordinarily broad reach of Uber across the nation (and world) and their questionable process for screening and hiring drivers has a lot of people worried about what the next shoe to drop
