SF News Lyft Sues San Francisco Over Alleged $100M Tax Overcharge The lawsuit, first filed Friday in California state court, alleges that San Francisco engaged in tax methodology that is “distortive and will grossly overstate Lyft’s gross receipts."
SF Politics That Prop L Rideshare Tax to Fund Muni Looks Unlikely to Pass, Because Another Measure Cancels It Out The tax on rideshares that was supposed to help dig Muni out of its deficit is cruising to a big win, but will probably never take effect, because it conflicts with the Prop M business tax measure which is winning by even more.
Business & Tech Moped-Sharing Service Revel is Pulling Its Mopeds From San Francisco November 18 will be the last day you can ride one of those blue Revel rental mopeds, as the company is discontinuing moped service in SF and New York City, but they’re staying in business and pivoting to some sort of EV charging model concept.
Business & Tech Lyft Rolling Out Feature Allowing Women to Request Women Drivers The rideshare company that once put pink mustaches on cars is launching a new change intended to lure women and nonbinary riders and drivers, as those riders can now specifically request a woman driver in San Francisco and San Jose.
SF News San Ramon Police Sic Attack Dog on Uber Driver Who’d Merely Missed Car Payments An Uber driver who’d missed rental car payments had his vehicle reported stolen, and San Roman police allowed their K-9 to maul him badly, in an incident that begs ethical issues of gig car rental companies and police use of force.
Business & Tech Parents Of Slain Woman Launch #WhatsMyName Safety Campaign For Rideshare Users The parents of a South Carolina college student who was kidnapped and killed last month, allegedly by a man whose car she got into believing it was her Uber, are trying to raise awareness of the dangerous trend of people getting into strangers' cars thinking they're rideshares.
SF News NYC Terror Suspect Had Logged Over 1400 Trips As Uber Driver New York City is still grieving over Tuesday’s Lower Manhattan terror attack that killed eight people and injured 12 more, but the incident is also reverberating at Uber headquarters here in downtown
SF News Uber Sued Again By Jilted Investors, Harassed Female Riders Travis Kalanick may be out as Uber CEO, but he’s still being named in fresh new lawsuits against the rideshare giant. In what may be the most financially significant lawsuit yet against
SF News Uber And Lyft Responsible For Two-Thirds Of Downtown Traffic Violations In our latest installment of No, It's Not Just You, we address your conspiracy theory that Lyft and Uber drivers are causing disproportionate problems in bike lanes, transit lanes, and all places that
SF News Bollocks To Uber, Which Is Now Banned In London A series of cock-ups has rideshare Uber arse-deep in trouble on the other side of the pond. In the wake of a Guardian report on sexual assaults committed by Uber drivers, the regulatory
SF News Study: Uber Drivers Game The System To Force Surge Pricing Just when you thought we might get through the week without another irritating tidbit about Uber, we have news of a study of Uber drivers in New York and London that suggests there
SF News Lyft Driver Attacked By 8 People After She Says They Can't Fit In Her Car A Lyft driver in Sacramento was brutally beaten by eight young adults after she refused to take them all in her six-passenger vehicle. The Sacramento Bee reports via driver Nakayla Hall's Facebook page
SF News Uber Initiates New $15 Lost Item Return Fee Leaderless and scandal-impaired rideshare giant Uber has taken the curious, counterintuitive tack of adding another fee in order to win back customers who are deleting the app. Engadget reports that Uber has quietly
SF News BuzzFeed Exposé Details Uber's Out-Of-Control 'A**hole Culture' There has not been a new Uber scandal breaking today (though we're still a while from the end of the business day Pacific Daylight Time). There is, however, an epic, 6,500-word exposé
SF News Report: Uber And Lyft Bloating SF Traffic By 15-20 Percent Rideshare behemoths Uber and Lyft purport to provide convenience for riders, but a new study drives home the point that these two companies in particular are burdening San Francisco with massive and broader
SF News Travis Kalanick Confirms Leave From Uber; Company Told To Curb Employees' Alcohol & Drug Use Confirming what has been credible rumor since Sunday, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced Tuesday that he would be taking an indefinite leave of absence from the company he founded to "work on Travis
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 Lyft's Pride Float Queen Claims Lyft Refused Her Rides Rideshare service Lyft has managed to avoid many of the high-profile public relations disasters of its larger competitor Uber, generally eluding terrible headlines while Uber has experienced a nonstop parade of recent scandals
SF News Woman Beaten After Hopping Into Rideshare That Wasn't An apparently enraged driver attacked and beat a woman in SoMa Sunday, after she got into his car thinking it was the transportation network company vehicle she'd requested. The Chron has the tale,
SF News Green Cab Nears Breakdown A founder of the worker-owned, 16-vehicle Green Cab company, Mark Gruberg is in a tight spot. Mission Local reports that his business has been unable to find a new insurance policy from an
SF News Anti-Rideshare Taxi Advocate Steps Down After Shady Videos Surface Just updated my avatar profile with my current outfit and attitude cuz apparently its hot or something . pic.twitter.com/vSRD4y4Zb2— Mister Johnson (@mrjhnsn) April 13, 2014 Local cabbie Trevor Johnson left his
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 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 UberX Undercuts Taxis Even Further, Drops Rates Below S.F. Meter Prices In another move aimed squarely at San Francisco's maligned taxi cab industry and comparable rideshare services, Uber has dropped the rates on their UberX hybrid car service to undercut standard taxi fares. Although
Arts & Entertainment Uber Warns Of '50-Percent Or Higher' Fares On NYE "Look, this is New Year's Eve," says Uber CEO Travis Kalanick regarding his company's possibly prickly price point come tomorrow night. Via this helpful video, he's trying to tell you that the city's
