SF News 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
SF News Uber Assures Worried Customers It Will Not 'Publicly Display' Your Ride History An Uber ride to a Planned Parenthood clinic. A weekly ride to an address that hosts AA meetings. Early morning pickups at your coworker's address. Ride-hail company Uber knows intimate information about its
SF News Lyft Trading Mustache For Glowing LED Beacon That Can Display Your Name Rolling out in the new year wherever Lyft operates and in several cities — Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco — in time for the New Year's Eve rush, drivers for Uber's chief rival
SF News 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
SF News Where Should Transit Companies Drop Off Their SF Passengers? Opponents of headlines with question marks in headlines should probably stop reading now: There's not a great answer to the query within. We already know that it's dangerous for transit company drivers — that's
SF News Sen. Al Franken Takes Uber And Lyft To Task Over Bias Report Following up on a National Bureau of Economic Research report released last month which found that Uber and Lyft drivers in Seattle and Boston discriminated against passengers with African American-sounding names, Senator Al
SF News 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
SF News With App Update, Uber Would Like To Access Your Contacts, Calendar As soon as today, your Uber app might start asking for an update. That's not all it's asking for: Uber wants more information than ever before on your comings and goings, even requesting
SF News Bay Area Uber Driver Allegedly Returned To Woman's House After She Reported Him For Sexual Battery A Bay Area Uber driver was arrested this weekend, after police say he sexually battered and stalked a woman who hailed him using the popular mobile app. In a press release sent Tuesday,
SF News Study: Uber Drivers Are More Likely To Cancel Your Ride If You're Black An Uber driver is twice as likely to cancel a ride if the passenger requesting it has a black-sounding name, a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds. The study,
SF News Uber Wants To Bring Flying Cars To The Masses Within Ten Years The year is 2027. You're running late for your job in Silicon Valley, and, as commuter traffic south out of SF has only increased over the last ten years, you know that the
SF News Aggressive Drivers Looking Forward To Bullying Self-Driving Cars While there is all kinds of pie-in-the-sky talk about the future of self-driving cars, one generally agreed upon impact of any potential widespread adoption is safer roads. With safety-conscious software making the decisions,
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 Peak 2016: Luxor Cabs Seeks Legacy Business Designation Thoroughly disrupted by contractor-based ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft, 1928- founded Luxor Cabs has filed with the Planning Department to receive benefits reserved for so-called legacy businesses. Socketsite snapped up the news,
SF News You May Soon Be Served Ads On Your Phone During Uber Rides Kind of like those TV screens in the back of taxis only more insidious, Uber is set to begin serving ads to your cell phone during trips via a new partnership that makes
SF News Ford Is Buying SF-Based Shuttle Service Chariot; Also They're Taking Over Bay Area Bike Share Automobile Goliath Ford today announced it will buy Chariot, the private shuttle service based in San Francisco born from startup incubator Y Combinator, in a move that speaks to the company's stated goal
SF News Day Around The Bay: Uber Begins Construction On Mission Bay Headquarters Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Popular and beloved Dipsea Cafe might become pot dispensary.
SF News Video: Uber's Self-Driving Vehicles Hit The Streets Of SF A video posted by Eve Batey (@evelb) on Sep 3, 2016 at 10:17am PDT Heads up! Uber's autonomous cars have arrived, and they appear to taking test runs all over San Francisco.
SF News Google's Waze-Based Carpool App Launching In San Francisco, To Compete With Uber Google may have hoped to wade gently into the ride-hailing waters jealously guarded by San Francisco's Uber and Lyft, but news today that its Waze-based carpool app will be expanding to San Francisco
SF News Uber Is Testing Pre-Paid, Flat-Rate Rides, And They're Already Sold Out In SF Maybe you, like I, received a notification from Uber regarding “Uber Plus,” a new subscription service that Forbes reports is intended to foster customer loyalty. Did you act fast? In San Francisco, Uber
SF News Lyft Rebuffed In Buyout Efforts By Google, Uber, And Others Lyft is coming to a strange sort of crossroads. The second largest ride-hailing company in the United States behind Uber (but by a mile) is seeking a variety of suitors for a buyout.
SF News 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
SF News Federal Judge Rejects $100M Uber Settlement With CA, MA Drivers, Doubts Company Will Ever IPO A proposed $100 million settlement between Uber and its California and Massachusetts drivers, with $84 million to have been paid out initially and $16 million more to have been distributed if and when
SF News Shifting Into High Gear, Uber Will Begin Driverless Car Service In Pittsburgh Within Weeks “We are going commercial,” Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced to Bloomberg Businessweek with regard to the company's decision to allow — conscript? — customers into using its driverless cars in Pittsburgh. “This can’t just
SF News Ford Promises Self-Driving Taxis With No Steering Wheels By 2021 Another major player just joined the race to bring self-driving cars to the masses. The Chronicle reports that the CEO of Ford announced yesterday plans to put fully autonomous taxis on the roads
