SF News Mother Of Travis Kalanick Killed In Boating Accident The parents of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick were in a boating accident Friday evening at Pine Flat Lake in Fresno County, injuring Kalanick's father, and tragically killing his mother. As NBC Bay Area
SF News Police Serve Search Warrant In Case Of Missing Uber Driver The family of Piseth Chhay, missing now for ten days, fears the worst but is still holding out hope that he may be found alive. The 48-year-old San Francisco man, a father of
SF News Missing Uber Driver's Car Found Stripped In Bayview Missing Piseth "Seth" Chhay, San Francisco, w his white Mercedes gl550, Calif tag # 7XCS116 pic.twitter.com/gB801uf1Mf— LostNMissing Inc (@lostnmissing) May 19, 2017 A Mercedes belonging to an Uber driver who has
SF News Uber Changes Pricing, Starts Charging Us What They Think We're Willing To Pay The days of super-cheap Uber fares arguably one of the last things the ride-hail company still has going for it appear to be numbered. Uber has quietly been changing the way it's been
SF News Uber Changes Tune, Threatens To Fire Self-Driving Exec If He Doesn't Waive His Fifth Amendment Rights In a somewhat surprising turn of events this week, Uber's General Counsel Salle Yoo sent self-driving car division executive Anthony Levandowski a sternly worded letter, dated May 15, asking him to waive his
SF News Lyft Teams With Google's Waymo In Hopes of Driving Uber Under In the ongoing war between Uber and Lyft for ride-sharing supremacy in the not-so distant future where human drivers are rendered obsolete, the latest battle has gone in favor of Lyft. The New
SF News Judge Refers Waymo V. Uber Case For Possible Criminal Investigation An initial decision has come down from a federal judge in the case brought by Google's self-driving car division Waymo against competitor Uber, and the judge has denied Uber's efforts to avoid having
SF News San Francisco Sues Uber To Get Local Driver Information We first heard about it last week, and now City Attorney Dennis Herrera makes it official, filing a lawsuit to compel Uber to hand over the names and addresses of all its local
SF News Uber Driver Abducted At Gunpoint; Different Uber Driver Crashes Two Cars In Santa Rosa An off-duty Uber driver was allegedly abducted at gunpoint Saturday night and forced to drive to Richmond, where his car was then stolen. As ABC 7 reports, the driver says that a man
SF News Uber Under Criminal Investigation Over Shady 'Greyball' Scheme While the likelihood of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick doing the perp walk in cuffs still seems pretty remote, the latest scandalous development with the rideshare company we love to hate puts Uber squarely
SF News Self-Driving Car Guru Anthony Levandowski Steps Aside From Lead Role At Uber Embattled self-driving car division head Anthony Levandowski is stepping back from his role leading Uber's autonomous vehicle efforts pending the outcome of that court battle involving his former employer, Google/Alphabet, and some
SF News Day Around The Bay: Flying Uber Cars? Really? Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. A court has ruled that Uber must turn over
SF News Self-Driving Car Tests Without Human Backup Drivers One Step Closer After Tense Meeting The California DMV stands to further ease its regulations on autonomous vehicles at the urging of automakers, Reuters reports following a heated public hearing in Sacramento Tuesday. Representatives from the Association for Global
SF News Uber Now Shows You Your Rider Rating More Prominently Uber riders with good luck, decent hygiene, and few interpersonal deficiencies can afford to forget that they're not just rating drivers: Their drivers are rating them, too. But with Uber's latest app update
SF News Family Of Uber Engineer Who Committed Suicide Blames Job Stress, Seeks Workers Comp Benefits The wife and children of a 33-year-old Uber engineer who committed suicide last summer are seeking worker's compensation benefits from the ride-hailing company where he worked. The Chronicle had the story, although the
SF News Profile Of Uber CEO Obsessed With Winning, Even At Nintendo, Reveals He Deceived Apple Tech world talk on Twitter yesterday was devoted pretty much entirely to a profile of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick by New York Times writer Mike Isaac, a persistent tweeter and thorn in the
SF News Apple Gets Permit To Test A Self-Driving Car We've been hearing that Apple was quietly getting into the self-driving car game since early 2015, and in August of that year, we learned they had already sought out a testing site in
SF News Uber Releases Its Financials For The First Time, Finance Prof Calls It 'Cash-Burning Machine' Uber has released a very controlled peek at its financial situation to Bloomberg, a first for the ride-hailing giant that's exercised its right as a private company to tell the public as little
SF News Uber Created Fake Lyft Accounts To Track Rival Drivers In Program Codenamed 'Hell' Uber sure knows how to codename a top-secret, legally suspect software program. A month after revelations that the ride-hailing giant used a system dubbed "greyball" to evade regulators by developing software to detect
SF News How Uber Games Its Drivers To Get Them To Drive More Uber makes no secret of its ambitions to replace human drivers ASAP, testing autonomous cars in a highly public manner. But for the moment, and even for the next decade, the ride-hailing company
SF News Uber Exec Accused Of Stealing Google Self-Driving Car Secrets Pleads Fifth Over Criminal Charges Concerns Anthony Levandowski, an Uber executive whom CEO Travis Kalanick once called his "brother from another mother," is asserting his Fifth Amendment rights in a lawsuit filed by his former employer, Google. Levandowski's lawyers
SF News Read The Thoughts Of A Younger Travis Kalanick On This Eight-Year-Old Wordpress Blog At the ripe young age of 32, back in 2009, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick apparently launched a Wordpress blog called Swooshing, and for some reason he's never taken it down. The name is
SF News Ugh: Lyft CEO Declares 'We're Woke' As customers give Uber hell over a steady stream of recent scandals, its distant second in the American ride-hailing market, Lyft, has been the beneficiary of tremendous good will, ride-hail dollars, and app
SF News Uber's First Diversity Report: Not Very Uber has been forced to take a long, hard look in the mirror after a series of scandals that mostly boil down to reflections of the company's aggressive attitude and corporate culture. At
SF News That Was Fast! Self-Driving Ubers Are Back On The Road, Everything Fine Now Driverless Uber vehicles were back on the streets of San Francisco this morning, the company confirmed to Reuters, after an exceedingly brief hiatus here and in other the testing cities of Tempe and
