SF News General Motors Just Tried (And Failed) To Acquire Lyft Lyft investor General Motors is apparently not content with its 9 percent stake in the ride-hail company, as The Information reports that the car manufacturer just made an offer to buy Lyft outright.
SF News New Feature Means You Can Make Your Lyft Driver Wait While You Run Errands In a press release that is sure to send Lyft drivers completely off the wall, the company announced that passengers will soon be able to add multiple stops to a trip. While CNet
SF News Study: Uber Doesn't Reduce Drunk Driving Calling into question the oft-repeated corporate claim that Uber availability reduces drunk driving, a new study from the American Journal of Epidemiology shows that the dangerous and illegal behavior is continuing along seemingly
SF News Chinese Uber Rival Buys Uber China, Ending Expensive Fight Not one to readily admit defeat, bullish Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has come closer than ever in a blog post to the Uber Newsroom titled "Uber China Merges with Didi Chuxing." It's less
SF News Palo Alto Uber Driver Arrested Following Alleged Sexual Assault An Uber driver was arrested over the weekend following reports that he sexually assaulted a passenger. According to CBS 5, the driver picked up a female rider early Saturday morning in Palo Alto
SF News Security Robot Temporarily Decommissioned After Knocking Down And Running Over Toddler An autonomous security robot at the Stanford Shopping Center has been temporarily pulled from use following reports that it knocked a toddler to the ground and then ran the kid over last week.
SF News Security Robot Knocks Toddler To The Ground Then Runs Him Over At Stanford Shopping Center A Palo Alto toddler was injured last Thursday after his parents claim a security robot at the Stanford Shopping Center knocked him over and then proceeded to run him over. And what's more,
SF News Uber Caught Using Ex-CIA-Staffed Research Firm To Dig Up Dirt On Legal Opponent A few weeks after the attorney Andrew Schmidt filed a labor lawsuit against Uber and its CEO Travis Kalanick last December — one of so many legal battles that keep the ride-hailing company's legal
SF News Uber's In-App Response To Gun Violence Is Weird And Tone Deaf Following on their kind and mildly helpful response in the wake of the mass shooting of LGBT people in Orlando they were giving free rides all the following weekend to and from various
SF News Lyft Goes After Uber Black With New 'Premier' Offering Ride-hail company Lyft today announced that it has expanded its offerings in what amounts to a clear attempt to move into turf long occupied by its main rival, Uber. Lyft, which has a
SF News Will Self-Driving Cars Ruin San Francisco? Self-driving cars sound pretty sweet, right? The idea of a safer, more reliable way to travel via automobile has an intuitive appeal — after all, according to the CDC, there are over 30,000
SF News Uber Has A Robot Security Guard On The Beat In San Francisco Why pay a human to do a job a robot can do for less? We learn today via Fusion that ride-hail company Uber has answered this question with a resounding "don't." The publication
SF News Updated Uber App Will Track Driver Behavior, Send Alerts To Speeders And Phone Clutchers Your complaints about speeding and reckless Uber drivers might soon be silenced, the company says, as they have developed software within their app to track negative driver behavior. Ha ha, who am I
SF News Uber Driver Accused Of Refusing To Drive Gay Couple During Pride A couple celebrating Pride were dismayed when they say their Uber driver refused to drive them after the two men exchanged a quick kiss. The men allege things got even worse, reports ABC7,
SF News Uber Will Stop (Telling You How Much It Is) Surge Pricing Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Surge pricing, on principle, is going nowhere, but the dreaded lightning bolt indicating exactly by what factor prices will be increased is (soon to
SF News Surprise! Leaked Documents Show Uber Drivers Don't Make That Much Citing a combination of leaked documents and data provided by Uber in response to requests by the publication, BuzzFeed News reports that Uber drivers in three large US markets make substantially less than
SF News Facebook Employees Actually Hate Commuting, Beg For SF Office In what will come as a surprise to no one, it turns out that fancy tech shuttle or no, the employees of Facebook are pretty sick of the commute to the Menlo Park
SF News Uber Settles Another Driver Suit To The Tune Of $7.5M Uber has settled yet another lawsuit, with the issue of driver background checks at the heart of the latest legal dispute. According to Reuters, in response to a case brought in San Francisco
SF News Treasurer Gives Uber And Lyft Drivers Longer To Obtain Business Licenses, Forgives Fines Drivers for transportation network companies like Lyft and Uber who were told, depending on whom you ask, somewhat abruptly in April that they would need to obtain business licenses, are being granted two
SF News 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
SF News SF Hedge Fund Accused Of Selling Fake Pre-IPO Uber Shares, Spending Investors' Money At Strip Clubs A San Francisco hedge fund has been accused of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars, with its CEO and a colleague spending their ill-gotten gains at strip clubs, casinos, and sporting events.
SF News Uber's Two-Minute Wait Limit Comes To SF This Month A series of new Uber features that Bloomberg characterizes as aimed at appeasing (now litigious) drivers (without increasing lowered fares for them) are set to debut. For riders, the most pertinent among them
SF News Uber Secures $3.5 Billion Cash Investment From Saudi Arabia Uber just secured its largest investment from a single investor — $3.5 billion dollars from Saudi Arabia to be specific. The ride-hail service announced today that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund — an
SF News Day Around The Bay: Most Americans Have Never Used Uber Or Lyft Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you — sign up here. Dead & Company, the band featuring three original members
SF News Self-Driving Muni Buses? Officials Apply For 'Smart City' Grant In a bid to completely change the way San Franciscans get around their city, officials yesterday presented a vision of a remade citywide transportation system. According to the Chronicle, numerous transportation experts and
