SF News Sheisty Uber Driver Allegedly Steals Sleeping Passenger's Wallet, Goes On SF Spending Spree The next time you find yourself nodding off in an Uber, just use this simple trick to stay awake: Remind yourself that one uber-shady Uber driver stands accused of stealing a passenger's wallet
SF News Flywheel Taxi Sues For Cities To Regulate Uber And Lyft In order to level what they deem to be an unfair field of competition against the likes of Uber and Lyft, Flywheel Taxi of San Francisco is suing California regulators, the Chronicle and
SF News The Life Of Another Uber Non-Employee: The Customer Service Rep A video posted by Uber (@uber) on Jun 1, 2015 at 10:13am PDT An anonymous personal essay on The Billfold, a website about finance, takes on a subset of the many contractors
SF News Cruising UberPool And Lyft Line For Dates Appears To Be Trending A young man who's been bragging about using Lyft Line as a tool to meet women is not alone. Or, scratch that, he's very alone. Definitely solo. But now we hear that other
SF News Uber Class Action To Make Drivers Employees Moves Forward A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit proceeding in San Francisco against Uber to get drivers reclassified as employees instead of independent contractors can move forward as a class action. This means
SF News Have You Been Hit On By A Dude Using Lyft Line To Meet Women? A San Francisco man who calls himself an entrepreneur is reportedly trying to turn Lyft Line into an (involuntary) Tinder. As Leigha Beckman writes on Medium and shares with SFist, a man she
SF News SF And LA District Attorneys: 'Some Uber Drivers Are Murderers And Felons' According to a new amended complaint by the district attorneys of San Francisco and Los Angeles, Uber's background-check method is inferior to that of regular taxi companies, and it failed to catch the
SF News Internal Documents Show Uber's Losses Accelerating A video posted by Uber (@uber) on Jun 1, 2015 at 10:13am PDT Uber is undeniably fast, a turbo-charged take on the "move fast and break things" axiom. But while raising capital
SF News Yellow Cab Offers $35 Flat Fare To SFO This is decently big news in the taxi/rideshare wars: SF's Yellow Cab is doing what New York City taxis have been doing for a couple decades and finally offering a flat-rate fare
SF News The Cars Uber Shows You Before You Hail A Ride Are Bogus “I know this seems a misleading to you," an Uber staffer tells Vice of the Uber cars you see on the app as you prepare to a hail a car, "but it is
SF News Your UberX Driver Is Also Probably Your Postmates And Washio Delivery Person A new survey by a dubiously named outfit called SherpaShare which itself is a service portal for workers in the gig/sharing economy confirms that many drivers for services like Uber and Lyft
SF News SF Woman And Boyfriend Assaulted By Fellow Lyft Line Passenger Everyone who loves the cheapness of Uber Pool and Lyft Line, take heed: You never know who you're sharing a car with. A cautionary tale came in via the tip line regarding a
SF News Judge Recommends $7M Fine, Suspension For Uber Over Skirting California Regulations In a ruling by an administrative law judge over claims by the California Public Utilities Commission that Uber had refused to provide necessary information to regulators, Uber is being fined $7.3 million
SF News Reclassifying Drivers As Employees Could Cost Uber $209 Million In California Alone A rough model built by Re/code with the help of ZenPayroll estimates that Uber could end up paying an added $208.7 million a year if it has to reclassify its California
SF News Uber Reaches Wrongful Death Settlement With Family of Sofia Liu A precedent-setting case against rideshare behemoth Uber has been settled, and the family of Sofia Liu, who was killed in a crosswalk by an UberX driver on New Year's Eve 2013 has won
SF News Another Worry For Uber: Suit Finds Yellow Cab Drivers Are Employees It's seeming more and more inevitable that the California courts will find that drivers for Uber and Lyft, and likely the independent contractors who do things like your Instacart shopping and Washio laundry
SF News Now Uber Wants To Track Your Location Even When App Is Not Running Rapidly expanding, IPO-hinting "technology platform" Uber makes way too many headlines these days. But in the case of their new privacy policy, due to take effect July 15, it feels like they may
SF News Uber Drivers One Step Closer To Being Called Employees After CA Labor Commission Ruling While federal lawsuits are still pending against Uber and Lyft seeking to reclassify the companies' fleet of drivers as employees rather than independent contractors, a new ruling Tuesday by the California Labor Commission
SF News Now That Taxis Have A Small Advantage On Market Street, Uber Wants To Be Treated Like Them Usually insistent upon being considered a "Transportation Network Company," which is to say a technology business and not some sort of retrograde taxi service, Uber "Technologies" has changed its tune this week at
SF News Grand Theft Uber: Company Releases Mobile Game To Test Knowledge Of SF Streets (And Recruit Drivers) Without Google Maps, could Uber even exist? As an increasing number of ride-hailing drivers live outside of the area in which they operate, a fair few are mostly or completely reliant on their
SF News Florida Agency Declares Uber Driver An Employee As we await federal court decisions in San Francisco in two separate class-actions pertaining to this issue against both Uber and Lyft, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity has ruled in favor of
SF News Uber May Be Signaling An IPO, Poached Carnegie Mellon Lab For Self-Driving Car Prototype A photo posted by Uber (@uber) on Oct 31, 2014 at 10:23am PDT All ride-hail Uber. Yes, you can follow them on Instagram for more unintentionally brilliant stuff like this. But while
SF News Uber Tests Taking Higher Commission From Drivers 'Because We Can' "'You've got happy employees, you've got happy customers, you've got happy shareholders," the president of an investment fund recalls grilling Uber's CFO, Brent Callinicos, to Business Insider. "The holy triumvirate are all really
SF News Here Are All The Reasons Traffic Sucks More Than Ever In SF Everyone who's been anywhere near downtown in the last year or two knows how much longer it takes to get from point A to B than it used to. San Francisco has, maybe
SF News Sidecar To Deliver Medical Marijuana, Become The Real Uber Of Pot Sidecar, a service that's something of a rideshare wars also-ran when compared with Lyft and Uber, has perhaps as a result of its position been fairly experimental with its business. The company has
