Dozens of rideshare drivers are refusing to pick up passengers from the Atlanta airport just days before Christmas in protest of unfair wages, leaving many holiday travelers stranded.
Ride-sharing giants Uber and Lyft have agreed to pay $328 million to settle charges that they withheld wages due to drivers in New York. The Silicon Valley gig economy darlings also agreed to change their pay practices for drivers moving forward.
Ride-sharing company Lyft is introducing a new feature that will let women and so-called “non-binary” riders request their driver’s sex. The same feature will allow female drivers to request to only drive for women and “non-binary” people, although the company hasn’t indicated if drivers can specify only biological women riders.
A 38-year-old Marine veteran was shot and killed in a 7-Eleven parking lot while working as an Uber driver in Linwood, California.
Ride-sharing giant Uber is continuing to have a rough time turning a profit, with the company’s third-quarter earnings revealing a net loss of $1.2 billion for the last three months despite revenues that continue to grow.
124,000 confidential internal documents from ridesharing giant Uber were recently leaked to The Guardian, revealing that the company attempted to lobby Joe Biden and other world leaders while also hiding information from law enforcement and purposefully putting drivers at risk.
Shares of ridesharing giant Lyft plunged 30 percent in intraday trading on Wednesday as investors expect short-term headwinds and surging gas prices to weigh heavily on the company’s performance in the coming months.
Ride-sharing giant Uber sent an email to some of its drivers and delivery workers last month offering to cover their health insurance costs, but backtracked on the offer two weeks later.
An Uber driver in the United Kingdom reportedly drove into a canal and the passenger was still charged for the watery journey. After the accident received media attention, the Silicon Valley ridesharing giant later refunded the passenger who had to walk home from the accident scene through “not the nicest area.”
A man died in the backseat of a rideshare vehicle on the University of Maryland campus on Friday morning. According to the local police department, the man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Ridesharing giant Uber has reportedly shut down its self-driving car business, selling its Advanced Technologies Group division to self-driving startup Aurora.
Ride-sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft are expected to prevail as California counts votes on Proposition 22, a ballot measure supporting the gig economy that exempts drivers for app-based transportation and delivery companies from being classed as employees.
A recently filed lawsuit accuses Uber of discriminating against minority drivers through its rating system. A former driver claims that he was unfairly terminated after his “star rating” dropped below a certain threshold after negative reviews from riders.
Uber could shut down services in California as early as Friday as the ridesharing company continues to fight the state over a new law that requires its gig economy drivers to be re-classified as employees. The threat of a stoppage comes after Uber posted a whopping $1.8 billion loss during the second quarter as the Chinese coronavirus pandemic continues to take a financial toll on the company.
Ridesharing giant Uber is reportedly set to purchase the fourth-largest food delivery service, Postmates, for $2.65 billion in stock. Postmates is a direct competitor for Uber Eats, the Silicon Valley company’s food delivery subsidiary.
Ride-sharing giant Uber announced on Tuesday that it would suspend shared rides with strangers on its platform in the United States and Canada to limit the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.
According to a recent study, ride-hailing trips with Uber and Lyft result in an estimated 69 percent more climate pollution on average than the trips they displace.
According to Uber’s fourth-quarter earnings released on Thursday, the company lost $1.1 billion for the three-month period but expects to be profitable by the end of 2020. Overall, the ridesharing company lost $8.5 billion in 2019.
Ride-sharing company Lyft is reportedly putting together a council of experts to advise the company on various safety initiatives for passengers. The “Safety Advisory Council” is being formed in response to many problems between drivers and passengers, including the rape and sexual assault of women — 14 rape victims have sued Lyft claiming their drivers sexually assaulted them.
Uber has been ordered to pay close to $650 million in employment taxes in New Jersey after the state’s department of labor said the ride-sharing company misclassified its drivers as independent contractors, according to a Bloomberg report.
An 88-year-old woman is suing Lyft after tripping over a rental scooter and fracturing her hip in Santa Monica, California.
Ride-sharing company Uber is being sued by a class of 96,000 NYC drivers seeking repayment for fees deducted from their fares.
According to a recent report from the Washington Post, ride-sharing company Uber prevented its own investigators from reporting crimes to the police.
A Los Angeles-based Lyft driver pleaded not guilty in court on Friday after he was charged with raping and kidnapping a woman.
Ridesharing company Lyft has been hit with a nationwide lawsuit from 14 women who claim they were sexually assaulted and raped by their drivers.
Uber has proposed to pay its drivers a new hourly minimum wage of $21, but a union affiliate representing the company’s drivers remains critical, as the proposed hourly wage would only apply while drivers actually have passengers in the car or are in route to pick someone up. The proposal is to counter a California bill classifying drivers as employees instead of independent contractors — which analysts believe could bankrupt rideshare companies.
A recent investigation by automotive website Jalopnik claims that Uber and Lyft are not paying drivers as much as they claim to. After studying nearly 15,000 fares submitted by drivers, the rideshare companies were pocketing between 8.5 and 10.6 percent more of revenues than they claim.
Uber announced this week that it will soon ban customers with low passenger ratings, which are assigned by drivers after a ride.
In its latest filing for its initial public offering, the rideshare company Uber Technologies made a bold prediction: People are going to prefer riding scooters around town to riding in cars during rush hours.
San Mateo, California, police have arrested a Rancho Cordova Uber driver after he allegedly returned to his pickup point to rob the home of one of his customers.
Lyft is very clear that it believes the future of transportation is driverless vehicles, but it has not told investors how it intends to get there.
An Uber driver has pleaded guilty to kidnapping and groping a sleeping passenger and then ditching her on the side of a road. He then allegedly charged her over $1,000 for a trip she didn’t take.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the self-described Democratic Socialist who sponsored the “Green New Deal” legislation in the House, reportedly spent more than $29,000 on gas-guzzling rideshare services.
Half of Uber drivers earn less than $10 an hour after paying vehicle-related expenses, according to a report.
Uber’s Chief People Officer Liane Hornsey has resigned from the company via email following an investigation into her handling of racial discrimination allegations.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company has announced the pre-launch availability of its $500 flamethrowers, which are “Guaranteed to liven up any party!”
Police arrested a former Lyft driver Friday after he allegedly raped a female passenger in Indianapolis, according to multiple reports.
A murder suspect allegedly used ridesharing service Lyft to transport the body of his female victim away from the crime scene, according to a report.
(Ferenstein Wire)—A brand new taxi design was unveiled last week to mixed fanfare, as the tech-enabled Nissan NV 200 “Taxi of Tomorrow” runs on a decidedly 19th-century technology: fossil fuel combustion.
On Thursday, the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Board of Commissioners finally granted Uber, Lyft and other ride-sharing services the green light to pick up passengers, making LAX the the second-busiest and largest U.S. airport to do so
