SF News Uber Courts Parents With Trip Tracker To View Their Kids' Rides In Real-Time A day after announcing its Family Profiles feature, which allows users to add up to 10 people and pay for their rides, Uber made clear one key use for that feature with the
SF News 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
SF News Parkmerced Partners With Uber, Partly Because It's So Far Away The real estate developer behind San Francisco's massive Parkmerced project announced today via press release a newly formed partnership with ride-hail giant Uber. On the face of it, the goal appears an attempt
SF News Key Plaintiff Objects To $100M Uber Class Action Settlement As Drivers Criticize Lead Lawyer Recently SFist wrote of a $27 million proposed agreement for drivers to settle with Lyft, a deal to keep them contractors rather than employees in California. That settlement was brokered by the same
SF News Google-Owned Waze Gets In The Ride-Hail Game, Launches New Carpooling App Google just fired a rather loud shot across the bow of both Uber and Lyft. With the release of Waze Rider, the Google-owned Waze has its eye on a significant portion of ride-hail
SF News Lyft Agrees To $27 Million Settlement Keeping CA Drivers As Contractors The big fight over whether ride-hailing drivers are contractors or employees — a contest that, pundits proposed, might threaten the very foundation of business models for the likes of Lyft and Uber — is close
SF News Self-Assured VCs Argue 'Dumb Money,' Not Venture Capitalists, To Blame For Tech Bubble Sure, we're likely in a tech bubble. But hey, that's only because wannabe tech players and foreigners are dumping "dumb money" into the startup sphere, and not because the intellectual powerhouses that are
SF News Uber And Lyft Pull Out Of Austin (Perhaps Hoping Public Outcry Will Ensue) Having lost a significant ballot vote on Saturday in the city of Austin, ride-share companies Uber and Lyft both announced they were pulling out of the city completely, and as BuzzFeed reports, both
SF News Uber Stymied In Australian State, Protests With 15,000 Printed Emails Delivered By Horse And Buggy After the Australian state of Queensland passed legislation to stamp out Uber last month with punishing fines to drivers using the app, the $50 billion valued company did what any imperious, overvalued child
SF News Uber Surge Pricing Getting Nixed, Says Engineer, But Company Quickly Denies That A report out this morning from the venerable NPR claiming that Uber intends to do away with surge pricing caught many users of the ride-hail app completely off guard. The piece, titled "Uber
SF News Uber Settles Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit, Will Remove Drivers Who Refuse Users With Service Animals Uber has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit, filed in 2014, with advocates for the blind. As a condition of the settlement, the AP reports via KRON 4, the company has agreed to
SF News Uber Insists It Will Not Add Tipping Function To App In response to reactions like SFist's this week to the growing idea that Uber drivers want passengers to tip them in cash, Uber has just put up a new official statement on Medium
SF News Like It Did For Uber Drivers, Treasurer's Office Orders Airbnb Hosts To Get Business Licenses Earlier this month, roughly 37,000 drivers for Uber and Lyft were mailed letters from San Francisco City Treasurer Jose Cisneros indicating that, as contractors, they must apply for business licenses to operate
SF News If Uber Drivers Start Demanding Tips And Only Waiting Two Minutes At The Curb, I'm Done The entire value and convenience propositions of using Uber could soon be out the window as it's becoming increasingly obvious that drivers would like to be getting cash tips, and as Uber announces
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Star T.J. Miller Calls Out Humorless Silicon Valley Tech A**Holes HBO's Silicon Valley premiered its third season on Monday, and accompanying it was a long interview with one of the show's stars. T.J. Miller plays the blustery Erlich Bachmann on the show
SF News Business Licenses For Some SF Uber And Lyft Drivers Cost Hundreds More Than Expected Many of the 37,000 or so San Francisco Uber and Lyft drivers who learned last week that they were required to have a business license to ply their trade in the city
SF News The Self-Driving Car Lobby Is Here, And It's Driven By Uber, Google, Lyft, Ford, And Volvo The usual suspects in the autonomous vehicle race are joining forces, forming a coalition to usher self-driving cars onto America's roads. According to a report from Reuters, five companies shaping up to be
SF News Uber Paying Off Drivers To The Tune Of $100M So They Can Keep Them As Contractors Welp, that big class-action lawsuit we've been talking about for over a year has been settled, along with a similar suit in Massachusetts, that we and a number of legal experts thought was
SF News 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
SF News SF's 37,000 Lyft and Uber Drivers Will Be Ordered To Get Business Licenses So much for promotional slogans like "Sign up and drive!" Uber and Lyft drivers operating in San Francisco, a number that may figure as high as 37,000, must obtain business licenses at
SF News Citing Funding Issues, 'Uber For Kids' Abruptly Shuts Doors San Francisco based Shuddle, a child-focused ridesharing company that once described itself as "Uber for kids" is describing itself as "out of business" today, after the venture-funded company ran out of road. In
SF News Uber Passenger In SF Reveals Road Rage Chase That Killed Pedestrian; Also, Judge Compares Uber To Silk Road The ride-hailing app that everyone loves to use and loves to hate, Uber, is once again in the news today for several reasons. First off, the company has just released its first ever
SF News Day Around The Bay: SoCal Man Poses As Uber Driver, Sexually Assaults Woman Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you — sign up here. The New York Times got into the on-the-ground studies
SF News As Uber Settles With SF & LA For $25 Million, Lyft's Class Action Settlement Is Denied On-point SF ad vandalism (what was Lyft thinking?) pic.twitter.com/SabcKYmTwf— Chad Woodford (@cjam) March 31, 2016 In terms approved by the Superior Court of California, within 60 days, Uber Technologies will
Arts & Entertainment What's Your Uber Passenger Rating? (Here Are Ours) There was a time when one's Uber "passenger rating" — the (averaged, I gather) rating assigned to you by your various drivers — was a deep, dark secret. This time last year, in fact, the
