SF News Yellow Cab Offers $35 Flat Fare To SFO This is decently big news in the taxi/rideshare wars: SF's Yellow Cab is doing what New York City taxis have been doing for a couple decades and finally offering a flat-rate fare
SF News The Cars Uber Shows You Before You Hail A Ride Are Bogus “I know this seems a misleading to you," an Uber staffer tells Vice of the Uber cars you see on the app as you prepare to a hail a car, "but it is
SF News Now Uber Drivers Want You To Tip We all knew it was too good to last, right? Well, Uber drivers, now envious that Lyft and regular taxi drivers get nice gratuities from passengers, are pushing to get a gratuity function
SF News DMV Declares That Uber/Lyft Drivers Need Commercial License Plates "Any passenger vehicle used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation, or profit is a commercial vehicle," reads a recent advisory issued by the California DMV with regard to Uber,
SF News Uber Commands $100 Surge Fares During Sydney Hostage Standoff, Apologizes Uber took some heat in Australia, and the international press, on Monday when the app started commanding quadruple-rate surge pricing in Sydney's central business district during what would become a 16-hour hostage crisis
SF News Despite Promise Not To Price Gouge During Storms, Uber's Surge Pricing Hits Shocking High In San Francisco Today Would you characterize today's events in San Francisco as those indicative of “any change in the market, whether actual or imminently threatened, resulting from stress of weather, convulsion of nature, failure or shortage
SF News Angry Cabbies Now Sporting Anti-Uber Bumper Stickers Cabbies fed up with UberX taking all their business now have bumper stickers on their cabs that make joking reference to the case of Patrick Karajah, the UberX driver who allegedly attacked passenger
SF News UberX Driver Denies Woman's Allegations That He Dragged Her From Car, Smashed Her Phone [Updated] Uber is under fire yet again, after a San Francisco woman says that a driver with the company's UberX service dragged her from his car and threw her phone when she wasn't immediately
SF News Should You Be Worried About Uber's Stalkery 'God View'? by Caleb Pershan When Uber allegedly showed off its “God View” at a Chicago launch party in 2011, it was a simpler time. Americans, just glimpsing the coming rideshare revolution and oblivious to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink FiDi Bar Offers Drink Special To Benefit Man Allegedly Beaten By Hammer-Wielding UberX Driver After Cavalier bartender Roberto Chicas's UberX driver allegedly bashed him in the in head with a hammer, Eric Mejia, the owner of Louie's Bar, knew he had to do something to help his
SF News UberX Driver Accused Of Bashing Cavalier Bartender With Hammer Took Freeway To Get From SoMa To Lower Haight A few more details have emerged in the alleged hammer attack by an UberX driver on a San Francisco man, including information on how the route the driver took might have precipitated the
SF News Man Allegedly Bashed By Hammer-Wielding UberX Driver Could Lose An Eye The UberX driver accused of striking a passenger in the head with a hammer during a ride in San Francisco did not have a previous criminal record — but that fact didn't stop SF's
SF News Have You Hopped Into A Stranger's Car Mistaking It For An Uber? The epidemic of UberX/Lyft usage in our cities has led to the unfortunate trend of people jumping into the backseat of any idling vehicle that they think should be their ride home.
SF News UberX Driver With Priors Facing Battery Charges A complaint that began on Twitter, in which an UberX customer claims he was verbally and physically assaulted by a driver in November, has now been escalated to the District Attorney's office. George
SF News Uber Defends Their Non-Involvement In Death Of Six-Year-Old Sofia Liu Last week, Uber filed its defense in the wrongful death lawsuit of six-year-old Sofia Liu, who was struck and killed on New Year's Eve by driver Syed Muzzafar while he was allegedly searching
SF News UberX Rides Get $1 More Expensive Just last night I noticed that UberX wanted to charge me a new $1 "Safe Rides Fee" on top of the usual fare. I clicked OK, because I needed to get home, and
SF News Seattle Votes To Curb Number Of Ride-Share Drivers Following in the footsteps of places like Paris, where taxi unions have a stronger foothold, the Seattle City Council voted last night to cap the number of Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar drivers in
SF News Uber Sued For Wrongful Death Of 6-Year-Old Sofia Liu The family of 6-year-old Sofia Liu, who was struck and killed by an UberX driver in the Tenderloin on New Year's Eve, is suing Uber for wrongful death related to the incident. In
SF News UberX Undercuts Taxis Even Further, Drops Rates Below S.F. Meter Prices In another move aimed squarely at San Francisco's maligned taxi cab industry and comparable rideshare services, Uber has dropped the rates on their UberX hybrid car service to undercut standard taxi fares. Although
