SF News Sidecar Hails A Ride To Nowhere, Announces It Will Cease Operations By Year's End So long Sidecar, and thanks for all the side-view mirror covers. Co-founders of the company announced in a blog post today that Sidecar would cease operations by the end of the year in
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
SF News Sidecar Now Lets You Choose Women Drivers In response to the growing safety concerns swirling around Uber, which are now making national headlines that include the story of the woman in Boston raped by an UberX driver, smaller ride-share upstart
SF News Sidecar Just Won The Right To Operate At SFO In what the company is calling a "milestone agreement," Sidecar just became the first ride-share company to get a permit to operate at San Francisco International Airport. The service is expected to be
SF News Uber's And Sidecar's New Carpooling Services Are Apparently Illegal Ten days after San Francisco Uber users received emails welcoming them to uberPOOL, a recently-launched service from the transportation service intended to allow "Uber riders to share trips with another rider along their
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 DeSoto Cab Head Says S.F. Cab Industry Could Collapse In 18 Months At the hands of Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar, yellow (and other color) taxis could be kaput in San Francisco in a year and a half, at least according to the president of one
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 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 California Becomes First State To Regulate Lyft, SideCar And Uber Today marks a big win for car-sharing companies in California, including Lyft, Sidecar and Uber: state regulators voted unanimously to create rules for companies that use smartphones in lieu of a hail sign
SF News PUC Ready To Legalize Ridesharing In California After mulling over how to regulate semi-legal ridesharing services like Lyft, SideCar and Uber, the California Public Utilities has handed down a proposed ruling that would create a new set of regulations for
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
SF News Lyft Gets $60M Investment For More Pink Mustaches The brigade of ridesharing services looks to drive on unabated as Lyft, of neon-pink mustache fame, received a $60 million cash infusion from venture firms led by Andreessen Horowitz LLC (yes, you read
SF News Letter To The Editor: A Solid Argument Against Ride Sharing [Update] We here at SFist are noted fans of newfangled ride sharing services -- prompted by one too many cabbie no-shows and refusals to go drive to Glen Park or the Avenues -- but
SF News Ridesharing Gets A Reprieve: PUC Agrees Uber & Lyft Are Both Legal For Now [Update] Good news on the ridesharing front today, as at least two of the big three ridesharing/sedan hailing apps have been granted a pass by the California Public Utilities Commission to continue operating
Arts & Entertainment Your Guide To Taking Ride Sharing Services On New Year's Eve It's New Year's Eve, and tonight after all the clocks flip over to 12:01 a.m. every taxi in San Francisco will turn into a pumpkin. A pumpkin that does not want
Arts & Entertainment Tell The PUC To Stop Its Ban On Ride-Sharing Services The political protection nonsense on part of the California Public Utilities Commission is chilling and disgusting. If you recall, the CPUC issued creepy cease-and-desist orders to both Lyft and SideCar, making inane claims
SF News No More Pink Mustaches? PUC Orders Cease-And-Desist For Ridesharing Apps Ridesharing apps like Lyft and SideCar have been surging in popularity over the past few months in San Francisco's taxi desert. In fact, we'd be willing to bet more than a few frustrated
SF News Hail! City To Issue 150-200 More Taxi Permits In a move that will brighten the soul of anyone who's ever spent half an hour in search of a cab, the MTA Board of Directors voted 6-0 last night to issue between
