SF News Uber Will Continue To Land Helicopters At Sundance Against Sheriff's Orders Despite being issued a cease-and-desist from a Utah Sheriff's Department, Uber will continue to use their helicopter service at the Sundance Film Festival. As reported earlier this week, Uber has teamed up with
SF News Amid Massive Losses, Thirsty Uber Gambles On Lower Prices, Higher Volume Silicon Valley's leakiest unicorn is betting on cheaper rates, more drivers, and greater ride volume to make a profit. Losses for Uber, a professional contracting service, grew to $1.7 billion on $1.
SF News Uber Strikes Deal Blocking Lyft From Levi's Stadium Uber has inked a deal with Super Bowl officials allowing the company exclusive ride-hail access to the area surrounding Levi's Stadium on the day of Super Bowl 50. That means competitor Lyft (and
SF News Non-Severe Storm Still Prompts Flood Warning The flooding sign tells the story. #WorstCommuteEver #SF pic.twitter.com/tbNVr2fxTz— Kristen Sze (@abc7kristensze) January 19, 2016 Rain continues to fall this morning after the National Weather Service issued a flood advisory
SF News Uber Teams Up With Airbus For New Helicopter Service Hailing a car is so 2015. Thankfully, the new year brings with it new opportunities for excess, and the fine folks over at Uber are all too happy to oblige. The not-a-transportation company
SF News 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
SF News SF's Yellow Cab Enters New Chapter... 11 Bankruptcy Welcome to 2016, San Francisco. Yellow Cab Co-Op, our city's largest taxi company with 530 medallions, is filing for bankruptcy the Examiner reports. In a letter obtained by the paper, president of the
SF News Lyft Scores $500 Million General Motors Investment, Plans Autonomous Cars General Motors knows that, in the future, not everyone is going to own their own car. Lyft knows that, in the future, not everyone is even going to drive a car. So, as
SF News Sidecar Hails A Ride To Nowhere, Announces It Will Cease Operations By Year's End So long Sidecar, and thanks for all the side-view mirror covers. Co-founders of the company announced in a blog post today that Sidecar would cease operations by the end of the year in
SF News Uber Passenger Killed In Wrong-Way Collision On Highway 1 Two people were killed in a car crash on Highway 1 in Pacifica early Friday morning, one of whom was an Uber passenger. KRON 4 reports an Uber driver was heading northbound on
SF News Google Partners With Ford For Self-Driving Car Manufacture Google well, technically Alphabet has struck a non-exclusive partnership deal with Ford to build its first production run of autonomous vehicles, as Yahoo Autos is reporting. This marks a shift for Ford, which
SF News Judge Bars Uber From Imposing New Contract Denying Drivers Access To Class Actions Uber Technologies Inc. has been barred by US District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco from imposing a new and reworded contract that is “likely, frankly, to engender confusion" in Chen's words. Bloomberg
SF News You Can Now Call An Uber Via Facebook Messenger Uber and Facebook have finally teamed up, but the merger. The two companies announced yesterday that you can now hail an Uber via Facebook's Messenger. "Powered by Uber’s API, Messenger now enables
SF News [Update] Seattle Approves Unions For Uber, Lyft Drivers Seattle's City Council voted today to allow freelance drivers the right to collectively negotiate such items as pay and working conditions. The New York Times observed that if the right were conferred upon
SF News In Response To Class Action, Uber Sends New Agreement For All Drivers To Sign Barring Class Actions On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that an arbitration clause Uber had included in its agreement signed by all drivers was unenforceable, and that therefore a class-action lawsuit in California to rule that
SF News Uh Oh, Uber: Judge Rules Class Action About Drivers Being Employees Can Expand A debate has been raging all year surrounding class-action lawsuits against sharing-economy companies like Uber, Lyft, Instacart, Postmates, and others about whether their drivers/personal shoppers should be considered employees rather than independent
SF News Uber Launches In Tahoe, Says It's Getting More Female Drivers Every Month Solving a slightly complicated issue involving the state line, Uber has announced it will officially be launching in the Lake Tahoe area, north and south, before the new year. The news comes as
SF News Uber Tests Color-Coded Windshield Bars To Help You Get In The Right Stranger's Car Are you my Uber? The technology company (often mistaken for a transportation company) is no stranger to this confusion. As their service grows, and grows and grows, Uber realizes that users in busy
SF News 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 News Sorry Bros, <i>Fight Club</i>-Esque App 'Rumblr' Is A Hoax Like Uber, but for street fights. What could possibly go wrong? Supposed brawling app Rumblr billed itself as "an app for recreational fighters to find, meet, and fight other brawl enthusiasts nearby" and
SF News SFMTA Will Drug-Test Taxi Drivers, Is Chill With Medical Marijuana Though Further differentiating the taxi industry from Lyft and Uber, who do nothing of the sort, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors voted unanimously yesterday to annually drug test cabbies for
SF News Last Night, My Uber Driver Said He Was Going To Rape And Kill Me Last night, I had dinner with my SFist colleagues. We wanted to sing karaoke after we ate, but The Mint was too busy. At around 10 p.m. we called it a night.
SF News UberRush, Literally Uber For Deliveries, Launches Today In NY, SF, And Chicago Today in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, Uber is barging in with a behind-the-scenes service aimed at businesses who wish to deliver their wares, whatever they be, to customers via Uber's vast
SF News California Approves Lyft-Specific Car Insurance Drivers for Lyft and Uber must (theoretically, and yeah, legally) be insured at all times on the road. The ride-hailing process, however, is a unique one. There's driving around as a private citizen
SF News Uber, Airbnb Execs Sued By Live-In Domestic Worker For Years Of Sexual Harassment, Wage Theft Today in San Francisco Superior Court, Julieta Yang, a 45-year-old mother of three from the Philippines filed a lawsuit alleging years of sexual abuse and wage theft as a live-in domestic worker for
