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
SF News SFO Now A Battleground For Taxi And SuperShuttle Protests With Uber, Lyft and Sidecar now fair game at San Francisco International Airport, taxi and SuperShuttle drivers might be SOL at SFO. Nonetheless, each group of workers staged protests in the past two
Arts & Entertainment Uber and Spotify Partner So That You Can Stream Your Playlists In The Car Just the other day a friend and I were wondering why Uber and Spotify hadn't partnered yet so that you could stream your preferred playlist the minute you got in an Uber car.
SF News Lyft Driver Thwarts Robbery Hammering home Lyft's reputation for friendliness, a driver for the rideshare company sprang from his Lyftmobile to thwart the robbery of a 67-year-old woman by four teenage girls, as CBS 5 is reporting.
SF News Uber, Lyft, And Sidecar All Now Legal At SFO We thought maybe Sidecar had struck some kind of sweetheart deal last week getting permits to drop off and pick up passengers at SFO, but it turns out the other rideshare companies got
SF News Man Allegedly Bashed By Hammer-Wielding UberX Driver Could Lose An Eye The UberX driver accused of striking a passenger in the head with a hammer during a ride in San Francisco did not have a previous criminal record — but that fact didn't stop SF's
SF News UberX Driver Accused Of Bashing Passenger In Head With Hammer During SF Ride The timing on this one seems odd, doesn't it? According to the San Francisco Chronicle, an UberX driver pleaded not guilty in San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday after allegations that he bashed
SF News District Attorneys Call Uber, Lyft, And Sidecar 'A Continuing Threat To Consumers' [Updated] Bad news hit the desks of ride-share company execs this week: The district attorneys of S.F. and L.A. have teamed up to investigate Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar for a handful of
SF News Taxi Drivers and Cab Companies Are Escalating Their Losing Battle Against Uber and Lyft A recent estimate puts the dent that rideshare companies have put in the San Francisco taxi industry at 65 percent and that just in the last fifteen months. Though there has been much
SF News Lyft Kills Their Lyft Plus Program, Drivers Stuck With SUVs They Don't Want Remember how, just back in April, Lyft decided to launch a luxury SUV service in order to compete with Uber SUV? Well, it seems it didn't go so well, and the Chronicle reports
SF News Insurance Bill For Uber/Lyft Drivers Passes California Senate A compromise reached between California legislators and ride-share companies Uber and Lyft this week suggests that insurance companies may be asked to create a new type of policy specifically for peer-to-peer ride-sharing. As
SF News Have You Hopped Into A Stranger's Car Mistaking It For An Uber? The epidemic of UberX/Lyft usage in our cities has led to the unfortunate trend of people jumping into the backseat of any idling vehicle that they think should be their ride home.
SF News Uber Drivers 'Cheating' The App To Gain Fares At SFO [Updated] Update: CBS San Francisco reports that Uber is disabling the illegal app and passengers affected by it will receive a refund. We also have new information from Chris, the driver who alerted the
SF News Stanford Students Launch New, Unpermitted Rideshare App For Late-Night Lifts To The South Bay Unhappy with paying $60 to $80 to get back to Palo Alto from the city via Uber, a couple of Stanford seniors have launched a new app called Fleet that ferries people along
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Uber Delivering On-Demand Ice Cream Today They've done kittens, and tamales, and DeLorean rides. Now once again today, Uber is bringing back their two-year-old ice-cream-truck-hailing promotion for a few hours, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Look
SF News San Francisco's Population Boom and How It Impacts You By some estimates, at least 30,000 extra people have moved into San Francisco since 2010. Where are we putting them all? That's still being worked out, clearly. But in the meantime, we
SF News Video: The War Between Taxis And 'Rideshares' When filmmaker and SF State student Max Maddox started seeing "so many mustached cars drive by," he was led to create "Taxi 2.0," a short documentary film "not just about the heated
SF News Angry Uber Drivers Rally Against The Future Remember when the argument was cabs vs Uber? Well, there's a new player in the game, and Uber's drivers sure don't like it. Sometimes the fall from the cutting edge can be the
Arts & Entertainment 'Everything But The News' Takes On S.F. Ridesharing Everything But The News is a news parody show, similar to The Daily Show, but with more PBS-focused jokes. In it, freelance reporter/out and proud Canadian Steve Goldbloom ventures throughout the Bay
SF News Lyft And Sidecar Won't Save You From High New Year's Eve Fares Either Although Uber has already warned riders of high fares on New Year's Eve, competing rideshare companies Lyft and Sidecar have sent out their own heads-up press releases about higher-than-usual fares for New Year's
SF News Uber Driver Sued For Divisadero Fire Hydrant Incident The Uber driver involved in a bang-up accident that ended with another car crashing through a fire hydrant at Divisadero and Hayes Streets is now being blamed for injuries to a female pedestrian
SF News SFO Cracking Down On Rideshare Drivers With Citizen Arrests Travelers looking to get home from San Francisco International Airport using ridesharing services like Lyft, Sidecar or Uber, might have a harder time finding rides starting right about now. As CBS5 reports, SFO
Arts & Entertainment When Your Lyft Driver Stalks You: A Cautionary Tale [Update] Much ink has been spilled over the pros and cons of the ride-sharing services that have quickly become a fixture of city life. But not so much has been said about what happens
SF News Behold, A Ghostbusters-Themed Lyft Car; Also, A Hello Kitty One As Lyft enters its second year of pink-moustachio'd gypsy cabbing, it stands to reason that some of the drivers are looking to distinguish themselves. Also, this is San Francisco, and we love a
SF News Letter To The Editor: Lyft Responds To Ride-Sharing Criticism On Thursday, SFist published a letter from Trevor Johnson -- a licensed cabbie who drove and dispatched full time for over three years -- criticizing successful ride-sharing services (like Lyft and Sidecar) popular
