SF News Waymo Very Close To Launching Self-Driving Cars Without Humans Behind Wheel Waymo may be gearing up to get self-driving cars — without human "safety drivers" — on the road by as early as this fall, according to The Information. If this seems a little soon to
SF News Would A Flat $30 Rate Convince You To Take A Taxi To SFO? Gather round kiddies, and I'll tell you a tale: Long, long ago, before your cell phone could let you do anything besides make calls and play Snake, people who wanted to travel to
SF News Travis Kalanick Moves To Undercut New Uber CEO, Appoints Two New Board Members By Surprise The Uber drama continues after a late Friday "surprise" by former CEO and current board member Travis Kalanick that is being characterized by sources as a blatant move to undercut new CEO Dara
SF News Uber Sued Again By Jilted Investors, Harassed Female Riders Travis Kalanick may be out as Uber CEO, but he’s still being named in fresh new lawsuits against the rideshare giant. In what may be the most financially significant lawsuit yet against
SF News Uber And Lyft Responsible For Two-Thirds Of Downtown Traffic Violations In our latest installment of No, It's Not Just You, we address your conspiracy theory that Lyft and Uber drivers are causing disproportionate problems in bike lanes, transit lanes, and all places that
SF News Bollocks To Uber, Which Is Now Banned In London A series of cock-ups has rideshare Uber arse-deep in trouble on the other side of the pond. In the wake of a Guardian report on sexual assaults committed by Uber drivers, the regulatory
SF News Lyft To Offer Free Rides In Self-Driving Cars Later This Year In SF The supposedly kinder, gentler, and self-described “woke” rideshare service Lyft has been feasting on the entrails of scandal-ravaged competitor Uber as of late. But a new self-driving car announcement from Lyft today signifies
SF News Taxi Company Crowdfunds For Survival As SFMTA Hands Drivers Lump Sum Checks How does a struggling local taxicab company compete with the cheap and unregulated competition of Uber and Lyft? Apparently, the same way that people these days pay unexpected medical bills, bail their own
SF News Kalanick Reportedly Cries As He Passes Torch To New Uber CEO At an all-hands meeting at Uber HQ in San Francisco this morning, former CEO Travis Kalanick was reportedly crying as new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi (pronounced cause-row-SHA-hee) was introduced to the company. Uber's board
SF News Uber Under Federal Investigation For Alleged Bribery, Violations Of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act It's the first day on the job for new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, and it appears task number one on his list will be a federal investigation into allegations of foreign bribery by
SF News Uber Board Names New CEO, Expedia Chief Dara Khosrowshahi Uber's board made a somewhat surprising decision Sunday to appoint Expedia chief Dara Khosrowshahi to the open CEO role at the company, settling two months of unrest at the company and setting aside
SF News Uber Ditches Much Publicized Plan For Oakland HQ Two years ago, Uber delighted Oakland commercial real estate brokers with the news that they had bought the former Sears department store property at Broadway and 19th Street with plans to have a
SF News Ongoing Uber Drama: Travis' Texts, Big Name Departures, And Lyft Is Doing Awesome The endless drama unfolding over at Uber might as well be programmed by Bravo TV. Here's the latest: In the lawsuit filed against Uber by Waymo, we get a look at a bunch
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Uber Still Wants To Be Loved, Will Deliver Free Ice Cream Friday This is the third story about Uber I'm writing today, and given the company's well publicized issues it's about time we have something cheery. On Friday, August 11, Uber will be delivering free
SF News Report: Self-Driving Cars Are Hilariously Easy To Fool Hell hath no fury like tech bros being told that their self-driving cars, artificial intelligence, and machine-learning technologies are overhyped and nowhere near ready for market. But with that in mind, SFist will
SF News Key Uber Investor Sues Travis Kalanick To Get Him Off The Company's Board Fasten your seatbelts, Uber watchers. The company's ride is about to get a good bit rougher. Benchmark Capital, an early investor in Uber which maintains a seat on Uber's board of directors, is
SF News Study: Uber Drivers Game The System To Force Surge Pricing Just when you thought we might get through the week without another irritating tidbit about Uber, we have news of a study of Uber drivers in New York and London that suggests there
SF News Travis Kalanick May Be Angling For A Shareholder Battle To Return As Uber CEO It sounds like ousted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was not speaking lightly when, as we heard last week, he was talking about "Steve Jobs-ing it" and returning to head the company just two
SF News Uber's CEO Short List Is Now Down To Three White Guys Despite appearing to intend to hire a female chief executive as a means of reshaping Uber's corporate image as a fratty boys' club, it looks like Uber is going to end up with
SF News Cash Pouring In For Mayor, Supervisor Races As Ed Lee Staffers Bolt For Uber It may become a new rite of passage in lame duck administrations that top staff start taking lobbying positions for the lawless scandal factory that is Uber. That’s a thread we see
SF News Uber And Lyft Permanently Banned From Most Of Market Street Under New Plan A new design is emerging for #sanfrancisco's Market Street #sfmuni #bicycling https://t.co/eVEw0l8EVQ pic.twitter.com/KoOqTmtQ43— Human Streets (@humanstreetssf) July 31, 2017 The Better Market Street Plan, which has been
SF News Uber To Launch Credit Card, Likely With Rewards, Later This Year Perhaps in a bid at strengthening customer loyalty, Uber is going to be launching its own co-branded credit card later this year in partnership with Barclays. Barclays made the announcement via the Associated
SF News Travis Kalanick Claims He Is 'Steve Jobs-ing It' To Get Back Inside Uber It remains unclear which tech titan will take over running Uber following Travis Kalanick's recent departure, but the ride-share company founder and former CEO wants back in. According to Recode, Kalanick told several
SF News Video: UberEats Delivery Guy Freaks Out On Woman In SF San Francisco's food delivery game is a tough one, you gotta admit. There's tons of competition, traffic is murder, and customers can be rude. But based on a video posted to Facebook by
SF News Uber Initiates New $15 Lost Item Return Fee Leaderless and scandal-impaired rideshare giant Uber has taken the curious, counterintuitive tack of adding another fee in order to win back customers who are deleting the app. Engadget reports that Uber has quietly
