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Over 200 Members of the Public Set to Give Comment at PUC Hearing on Robotaxis

The hearing on expanding autonomous-vehicle taxi service in San Francisco has gotten underway at the California Public Utilities Commission — and a long line of attendees and possible speakers during the public-comment portion was visible at Van Ness and McAllister on Thursday morning.

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One Autonomous Vehicle Appeared to Chase a Fire Truck; Another Blocked a Fire Truck From Getting Out of Its Station

On the eve of a key vote by a state commission on whether to allow Cruise and Waymo to further expand their autonomous vehicle testing and begin taking paid passengers all over SF, we're getting to see some of the 55 incident reports filed by the SF Fire Department involving AVs.

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Now the Feds Are Looking Into Why All Those Cruise Robotaxis Went Rogue and Swarmed on Gough Street

GM's self-driving taxi arm Cruise will have to answer to federal safety regulators who are now rightfully concerned about several incidents in which the robot cars decided to stop in the middle of streets and block human drivers from getting past, or randomly brake quickly and cause collisions.

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Flywheel Taxicabs Are Now on the Uber App in San Francisco

Uber’s long war on the taxicab industry has ended with a whimper and a merger, as Flywheel cabs are now incorporated into the Uber fleet, in a pilot that’s starting here in SF and hopes to fly nationwide.

Bankrupt Yellow Cab Is Now For Sale

That beleaguered staple of San Francisco, Yellow Cab Cooperative, is for sale. The Examiner reports that the almost 40-year-old taxi company just couldn't overcome the one-two punch of a series of lawsuits stemming

We May Now Have Upwards Of 40,000 Uber And Lyft Drivers Operating In SF

The number of drivers for transportation network companies Uber and Lyft who operate in the companies' hometown of San Francisco might vary wildly from month to month, or even from Saturday night to

Flywheel Taxi (Née DeSoto) Sues Uber For Predatory Pricing

Uber is on the receiving end of another lawsuit this week, and this time it's not from the ride-hail company's "driver-partners". Rather, according to the Chronicle, in a lawsuit filed yesterday in federal

Three Seriously Injured After Taxi Jumps Curb In FiDi

SUTTER SANSOME UPDATE 3 critical adults VEH into pedestrians AVOID AREA pic.twitter.com/YmpCx6sYVg— San Francisco Fire (@sffdpio) August 23, 2016 Market Street was blocked off with firetrucks and ambulances today following

Weekend Reminder: You Can Legally Get Drunk In San Francisco Cabs

So it's Friday afternoon and you're probably sitting at your desk thinking about weekend plans. Maybe heading out to dinner, or meeting friends at a bar? Many of you, no doubt, will end

Man Hops Into Tenderloin Car Thinking It's His Taxi, Gets Robbed

It what appears to be semi-common occurrence these days, early morning Wednesday a man reportedly got into a random car thinking it was his taxi. Unfortunately for the unnamed 49-year-old, KRON 4 reports

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

Attn. Ride-Share Drivers Picking Up Passengers In Taxi Lanes: Stanley Roberts Will Find You

As anybody knows, if you see Stanley Roberts, you've been behaving badly. The SFPD and SFMTA are cracking down on Uber and Lyft drivers trying to pick up passengers who are attempting to

State Senate Panel Falls One Vote Short On Bill To Ban Surge Pricing For Uber And Lyft

A California Senate committee blocked a bill this week that would have stopped Uber and Lyft from employing the dynamic fare pricing known as "surge" pricing. The AP reports that the measure fell

Video: Uber Drivers Stage 'Honk-In' Protest Over Wages In Front Of Uber HQ

Uber drivers protesting #Uber #UberProtest #iloveSF #sanfrancisco #beepbeep #honkhonk #stfu A video posted by @pawshbb on Jan 25, 2016 at 3:55pm PST Uber drivers, upset over an announcement by the company earlier

Uber Fined $7.6 Million, Will Pay To Avoid 30-Day Suspension In California

A fine recommended by a California administrative law judge last summer from the California Public Utilities Commission is being levied upon Uber, we learn today. As the LA Times reports, while Uber will

Taxis May Be Bouncing Back Despite Competition From Uber And Lyft

You may have assumed that taxi cabs were an endangered species and likely bound for extinction in the next few years, but that assumption may be very wrong. As the Wall Street Journal

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

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

Much To Uber's Dismay, SFMTA Approves Private Vehicle Restrictions For Market Street

After three hours of public comment Tuesday, the board for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency unanimously approved a plan that would dramatically change how private vehicles use a significant stretch of Market

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

Taxi Cab And Uber Car Collide Before Cab Crashes Bar

In a decidedly literal collision, the Chronicle has word that an Uber car and a taxi cab have crashed into one another today. The incident took place at 9:24 a.m on

Uber CEO Says SF Revenues Are $500 Million Per Year, Others Question Figure

Business Insider reports that in Munich yesterday Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced that Uber's revenue in San Francisco is far larger than that of the taxi industry here. What's more, it's possible that