SF News As Thousands Delete Their Uber Apps Over JFK Story, Uber Denies Trying To Break Up Taxi Strike Following reports that Uber was still operating to and from JFK Airport in New York on Saturday during a taxi strike in response to Trump's immigration order, a call went out on social
SF News Uber Self-Driving Cars Are Back In SF, But They're Not Self-Driving, Uber Promises You thought we were rid of them when they got hauled off to Arizona last month, but Uber's self-driving cars are back on SF streets after barely a month. As CNet reports, the
SF News Hydrofoil Water Taxi Startup Aims To Ferry Bay Area Commuters Ooh la la! French startup founders Alain Thebault and Anders Bringdal, a duo who broke the record for speed on a sailboat they designed back in 2009, were speeding through San Francisco and
SF News Study: Ride-Hail Carpooling Could Cut Traffic By 75 Percent Traffic around the Bay Area has jumped 70 percent since 2010, with San Francisco reported as having the third worst traffic in the country. With those frustrating figures in mind, a new study
SF News New Law Means Tougher Background Checks On California Ride-Hail Drivers A new law set to take effect January 1 means ride-hail companies like Uber and Lyft will soon know much more about their drivers' past deeds — and allows for serious fines should employers
SF News Uber Driver Strands Passenger At Desert Gas Station 75 Miles From Home On Christmas Day The holiday season had been tough for Holly Tennant, who was driven approximately 150 miles via ambulance to a Las Vegas hospital after suffering complications from surgery. However, things started to look up
SF News Tacolicious, Southern Pacific Brewing Top 2016 Lyft Destinations December is almost over, which means it's that time of year when everyone's favorite brands drop some variation of the 2016 "top ten" list. Not wanting to be left out of the fun,
SF News Man Stalks, Shoots At Uber Driver In Hayes Valley An Uber driver waiting for a fare was injured this Christmas Eve, when a man followed the car on foot then fired shots into the vehicle. According to San Francsico Police Department spokesperson
SF News Self-Driving Ubers Depart San Francisco On The Back Of Self-Driving Trucks Just over a week after the company launched its self-driving service in San Francisco to much fanfare, Uber executives today ordered their autonomous Volvo SUVs packed up and shipped out of state to
SF News Uber Finally Convinced By DMV To Yank Self-Driving Cars Off SF Streets A week after boldly defying California officials and arguing that they had every right to test their self-driving vehicles with paying customers inside, Uber has relented and pulled its self-driving cars off the
SF News Mayor Considering Legal Action As Self-Driving Ubers Continue To Roam SF Streets With Uber executives vowing to keep their self-driving cars on San Francisco streets in the face of opposition from both local and state officials, Mayor Ed Lee is exploring the possibility of taking
SF News Google-Founded Self-Driving Car Company Waymo Unveils Vehicles, Eyes 2017 Deployment As Uber continued to argue with state regulators last week over its self-driving cars on San Francisco streets, another manufacturer of autonomous vehicles rolled onto the scene. Executives with Waymo, a company which
SF News Uber Ignores Mayor Lee's Demand That It Cease Unpermitted Self-Driving Ride Service Mayor Ed Lee stepped into the self-driving fray yesterday, issuing a statement demanding that Uber cease picking up passengers in the company's autonomous Volvo SUVs immediately. As the Chronicle reports, the Mayor's words
SF News Elderly Ride-Hail Pool Passenger Kidnapped By Driver In Richmond District Just a few days after the driver for a ride hail company was accused of taking a San Francisco passenger to a remote location and making unwanted sexual advances, another driver is being
SF News Uber Blames Its Drivers As More Reports Of Self-Driving Cars Running Red Lights Surface Uber's San Francisco self-driving car launch had a rocky first day. First, the California DMV told the company that, despite its protestations to the contrary, it still needed to acquire permits to operate
SF News State Regulators Tell Uber It Must Immediately Stop Self-Driving Car Program Uber's self-driving car program, launched this morning in San Francisco, is experiencing a bit of whiplash. According to the Associated Press, California state regulators just announced that Uber must cease picking up passengers
SF News Elon Musk And Travis Kalanick Just Joined Trump's Advisory Team It looks like Facebook board member Peter Thiel will now have some company in his late-night cram sessions with President-elect Donald Trump. The Washington Post reports that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Tesla
SF News Uber Says 'FU' To DMV, Rolls Out Self-Driving Cars Without Approval Uber's self-driving cars are now picking up passengers on the streets of San Francisco. Starting today, the company will make its autonomous vehicles available to customers hailing an UberX ride through the app.
SF News Uber Staff Allegedly Enabled Stalking And Accessed Beyonce's Trip Data Fresh on the heels of an update allowing Uber to track users' location data for up to five minutes after they've been dropped off, the ride-hail giant now faces allegations that some of
SF News San Francisco Ride-Hail Driver Kidnaps Drunk Passenger Police are seeking a ride hail company driver, after his passenger says he briefly kidnapped her instead of taking her to her destination. Police say that the incident happened at 2:23 a.
SF News SFMTA Blames Uber And Lyft For San Francisco's Traffic Woes San Francisco has the third worst traffic in the country, and the Bay Area at large has seen a 70 percent increase over the past six years. As with many things in life,
SF News 'Silicon Valley' Star TJ Miller Arrested Following Altercation With Uber Driver Over Trump In a move that sounds more befitting of actor TJ Miller's character on Silicon Valley, the oafish Erlich Bachmann, Miller was arrested in Hollywood early this morning according to the venerable source of
SF News The BART Connection To SFO Is Losing Riders Fast As Uber/Lyft Airport Rides Skyrocket In some not so surprising news, ever since Uber and Lyft have been given free rein to pick up and drop off passengers at SFO, ridership on BART's SFO line has been steadily
SF News Day Around The Bay: Uber Loses $2 Billion A Year, Report Claims, As Passengers Pay Just 41% Of Ride Costs Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Most people know that Uber has been losing lots
SF News Uber Drivers To Join Nationwide Living-Wage Strike Tuesday San Francisco Uber drivers are gearing up for a strike tomorrow as part of a nationwide labor-protest seeking a livable wage. Reuters reports that the action is being organized by Fight For $15,
