SF News Uber Under Criminal Investigation Over Shady 'Greyball' Scheme While the likelihood of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick doing the perp walk in cuffs still seems pretty remote, the latest scandalous development with the rideshare company we love to hate puts Uber squarely
SF News Fake Rideshare Driver Takes Bite Out Of SF Fare A man who thought he was hopping into his hired ride got a nasty shock Friday, when the driver turned out to be focused on something other that customer service. It was 4
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 [Update] Leaked Internal Searches At Uber Customer Support Show Thousands Of Results For 'Sexual Assault' Search queries for terms like "rape" and "sexual assault" conducted by a former Uber customer service representative on Uber’s Zendesk customer support platform returned a staggeringly high volume of results. Those were
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 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 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 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 Uber Driver Injured By Passenger In Attack Sues For Workers Comp An Uber driver whose nose was broken after being attacked by a passenger is now suing the company for workers comp. Abdo Ghazi filed the lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court on April
SF News Disgruntled Lyft Drivers Plot Possible Strike SFist received a tip this week that a gang of Lyft drivers were might peeved about a lucrative promotion that was dangled by the company and then, apparently, rescinded rather quickly. The deal
Arts & Entertainment Video: Funny Or Die Mocks Uber Evilness An Apology From Uber from Funny Or Die In one of those inevitabilities of internet comedy, Funny or Die has just satirized the various Uber scandals and controversies of the last year, including
SF News DeSoto Cab Co. Rebrands Itself As Flywheel The latest chapter in the rideshare-taxi war has San Francisco's oldest cab company, DeSoto, letting go of its entire brand and image in favor of aligning itself with the Flywheel taxi-hailing app. As
SF News Now Uber Drivers Want You To Tip We all knew it was too good to last, right? Well, Uber drivers, now envious that Lyft and regular taxi drivers get nice gratuities from passengers, are pushing to get a gratuity function
SF News Google Is Developing Its Own Uber For Driverless Cars Former allies Uber and Google look to be at odds as each plans for a future driven by autonomous taxis. It's going to be a race for several years, but it looks like
SF News Will Uber And Lyft Be Forced To Treat Drivers As Employees? A federal judge struck a blow to the business models of "ride-sharing" companies like Uber and Lyft by suggesting that it's not legal to treat drivers as independent contractors, and the companies may
SF News DMV Pulls U-Turn, Retracts Requirement For Commercial Plates On Uber/Lyft Cars California DMV Director Jean Shiomoto retracted Vehicle Industry News alert VIN 2015-01 on Friday night, which affected ride hailing operators like Uber, Lyft and Sidecar. Specifically, the now defunct alert claimed that "Any
SF News DMV Declares That Uber/Lyft Drivers Need Commercial License Plates "Any passenger vehicle used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation, or profit is a commercial vehicle," reads a recent advisory issued by the California DMV with regard to Uber,
SF News NYE Ride Guide: Battle Royale For Rideshares, Taxis, And Mass Transit As the proverbial ball begins to drop on this New Year's Eve, there's plenty to eat, do, and drink, as we've underscored in this guide to the best fetes in town. While getting
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 Uber Commands $100 Surge Fares During Sydney Hostage Standoff, Apologizes Uber took some heat in Australia, and the international press, on Monday when the app started commanding quadruple-rate surge pricing in Sydney's central business district during what would become a 16-hour hostage crisis
SF News SF, LA District Attorneys Suing Uber Uber, recently embroiled in a scandal involving not-so-veiled threats against unfriendly journalists, accused of operating illegally by the city of Portland, banned in Delhi, and ordered to halt operations in Spain and Thailand,
SF News DA's Office Takes A Year To Figure Out Charges For Former Uber Driver Who Allegedly Killed 6-Year-Old [Updated] Nearly a full year after a man driving for Uber allegedly struck and killed a 6-year-old girl, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office has decided to charge him with a single misdemeanor count.
SF News Another Private Bus Service Enters The Marina Commute Race, This One With Twitter Money Though we've already bemoaned the pompously named Chariot that caters to Marina folk, everyone seems to want a seat on the bus privatization bus. Now the San Francisco Business Times introduces us to
SF News Angry Cabbies Now Sporting Anti-Uber Bumper Stickers Cabbies fed up with UberX taking all their business now have bumper stickers on their cabs that make joking reference to the case of Patrick Karajah, the UberX driver who allegedly attacked passenger
SF News New Lyft Service Lets Commuting Drivers Pick Up Passengers Along Their Route To Work According to Lyft, around 80% of commuting drivers make their daily trek alone. So, the company is debuting a service called Driver Destination. Lonely commuters stand to gain $400 a month just picking
