SF News Uber and Lyft Account For Twice As Much SF Traffic As We Thought Lyft and Uber's real internal numbers show these two rideshare companies generate twice as much congestion as had been previously estimated.
Business & Tech Uber Eats Adds Order-Ahead/Dine-In Option For the Truly Impatient If your entire goal in dining out is shoving some fuel in your pie hole and getting out a restaurant as fast as humanly possible, then Uber Eats has a swell new option for you.
Business & Tech Uber and Lyft Pushed Drivers To Email State Legislators To Oppose Bill That Would Make Them Employees Both Uber and Lyft are anxious about a bill that could potentially make California the first state where rideshare drivers — and all delivery-app drivers — can't be classified as contractors.
Business & Tech Launch Announced For Uber Air, The On-Demand Helicopter Service That They Say Will Be As Cheap As Uber X Following on but unrelated to its more luxury-focused Uber Copter, which launches in New York City in July, Uber this week announced Uber Air, an all-electric flying taxi service that it hopes to begin testing in Australia next year.
SF News SFO Begins Mandatory Garage Pickups For Uber and Lyft Today In an effort to ease the daily rideshare traffic jams at SFO's domestic terminals, the airport is moving all Uber and Lyft pickups to a new designated area on the roof of the domestic hourly parking garage — and you can expect a few months of confusion about this as people figure it out .
Business & Tech Low Uber Rating? Company To Start Kicking 'Below Average' Riders Off The App Have you made a driver pull over one too many times so you could boot? Or worse, actually puked in the backseat of an Uber? You may just find yourself removed from the privilege of using Uber in the near future.
Business & Tech Judge Orders Uber To Turn Over Illegal Parking, Safety Hazard Data Police estimate that rideshare drivers commit 65% of San Francisco traffic violations, and the city attorney just won a round in the fight to prove it.
Business & Tech Don't Want To Chit-Chat With Your Uber Driver? New 'Quiet Mode' Is For You Uber has just rolled out a new feature for its black-car service: Quiet Mode. Without having to say so or be passive-aggressively terse, this new option will let your driver know you'd like to ride in silence, thanks.
Business & Tech Rideshare Vehicles Are Hotbeds For Germs, Moreso Than Taxis, Says Study Those dangling bottles of hand-sanitizer might be more than just a courtesy! A small-scale study comparing swabs taken from rideshare vehicles with those taken in taxis and rental cars found that the rideshare vehicles had the highest overall presence of bacteria and other germs.
Business & Tech Uber IPO Sputters, Stock Already Trading Below Initial Price Uber's big, much ballyhoo'd IPO did not get off to the most glorious start Friday afternoon, as an already conservative $45 initial share price appears too rich for investors' blood. Even Lyft had a bit of a first-day bounce on its IPO day!
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Uber Prices IPO Shares At Bottom Of Range Tubbs Fire victims in Santa Rosa say they're being taken advantage of by a contractor, a suspect was arrested in a string of Dublin arsons, and 15 sets of twins are graduating in the same high school class.
SF News Scenes From The Picket Line Outside Uber HQ In SF Drivers for both Uber and Lyft are on strike today, protesting low wages and a lack of transparency around compensation, and a couple hundred gathered outside Uber's Market Street offices this afternoon ahead of the company's planned IPO.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Uber / Lyft Driver Strike Kicks Off SF School Board President says he was racially profiled at a Walgreens, Monday's dead whale gets necropsy, and A's pitcher Mike Fiers pitches no-hitter.
Business & Tech Uber Drivers Plan Strike Ahead Of IPO Uber drivers are planning to strike in seven cities on May 8, which may be right around the time the company has its big IPO day on Wall Street. The drivers are demanding better pay, benefits, and transparency around their wages.
Business & Tech Parents Of Slain Woman Launch #WhatsMyName Safety Campaign For Rideshare Users The parents of a South Carolina college student who was kidnapped and killed last month, allegedly by a man whose car she got into believing it was her Uber, are trying to raise awareness of the dangerous trend of people getting into strangers' cars thinking they're rideshares.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Uber Files For IPO, Shows $1.8 Billion In 2018 Losses Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf won't be called in the Ghost Ship trial, Marine who went skiing solo in High Sierra six weeks ago still remains missing, and gas prices in SF hit $4.
SF News As Uber Preps Its IPO, Let's Stop Freaking Out About This Supposed Tidal Wave Of New Wealth Uber is expected to make its IPO filing public on Thursday, with an expected valuation of $90 billlion to $100 billion. Yes, those are big numbers, and some longtime employees are going to get quite paper-rich very soon. But this panic over all the pending IPOs needs to stop.
SF News A City Tax On Uber/Lyft Rides Could Be Headed for the November Ballot The tax would need a two-thirds majority to pass, and aspires to raise $30 million for street infrastructure improvements.
SF News Far Right Commentator Banned From Uber And Lyft After Islamophobic Tweets Following a series of tweets in which she complained about Muslim drivers on Uber and Lyft, far-right commentator Laura Loomer has been banned from both of the ride-share services. According to CNet, this
SF News NYC Terror Suspect Had Logged Over 1400 Trips As Uber Driver New York City is still grieving over Tuesday’s Lower Manhattan terror attack that killed eight people and injured 12 more, but the incident is also reverberating at Uber headquarters here in downtown
SF News Day Around The Bay: Another Week, Another Uber Lawsuit A new lawsuit is accusing Uber of compensating women less than male counterparts. [Ars Technica] Uber launches multi-stop trips in the U.S. and Canada. [VentureBeat] Man has backpack stolen in SF, then
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Uber Credit Card Is Here Remember how we heard that Uber was going to have a co-branded credit card with Barclays? Well, it's now official, and it gives you 2% cash back on all Uber rides. [Associated Press]
SF News Uber Drivers Shot In Pacific Heights, On 380 Near SFO Clay St at Laguna now open after @SFPD investigate shooting of driver of towed car. He suffered non life threatening injury pic.twitter.com/DwZFhgMMaw— Tiffany Wilson (@TWilsonTV) October 22, 2017 Two Bay
SF News Three People In Uber Car Injured In Shooting On I-880 In Oakland An Uber driver and two passengers were hospitalized with injuries early Sunday following what authorities are calling a "targeted" shooting on the I-880 freeway in Oakland. As the East Bay Times reports, the
SF News State Regulators Let Uber And Lyft Off The Hook On Fingerprinting Drivers Though Uber and Lyft already require annual background checks, state regulators have decided that they don't need to perform full-on biometric checks (including fingerprint checks) like taxi companies do. According to the Chronicle,
