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Former Miss Slovakia Miriam Mattova says a Toronto Uber driver slammed on the brakes and ordered her out of the car after overhearing her talk about a recent visit to Israel, telling her, “we don’t drive Jewish people,” in what she calls a “blatant act of antisemitism” that must carry real consequences.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi believes that in “20 plus years,” all cars will be autonomous, leading to a decline in private car ownership and a shift in the perception of driving to be a hobby, which he compares to horseback riding.

A biotech CEO is suing rideshare company Uber after he said one of its drivers, who is an illegal alien, sucker punched him and left him lying in a parking lot with serious injuries.

Police in Friendswood, Texas, have arrested a migrant Uber driver for “aggravated kidnapping” of a female passenger.

Uber, which has a major sexual assault problem that becomes worse late at night and on weekends — when women typically use the service in an effort to be safe — has reportedly averaged a sexual assault or sexual misconduct report in the United States every eight minutes over the course of five years.

Uber says it is implementing a feature that will allow female passengers to choose women as their drivers or as fellow riders.

Media outlets and local police are downplaying the power of the Islamic religion in motivating a Muslim migrant’s firebomb attack on Americans in Colorado.

An Uber driver was shot and killed Wednesday morning during an attack targeting the driver’s passenger outside a Philadelphia hookah lounge.

Elon Musk’s X and Google are leading a pack of tech giants expressing concerns that the cost of funding the UK’s Online Safety Act could drive businesses out of the country.

As the United States gears up for the presidential election on Tuesday November 5, ridesharing giants Uber and Lyft are offering discounted rides to polling stations. The Silicon Valley competitors claim they are making voting more accessible for citizens with cheap rides.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has expressed skepticism about the feasibility of Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to turn Tesla vehicles into a fleet of privately owned autonomous taxis.

Prosecutors say mere weeks after a judge removed a Chicago suspect’s ankle monitor, he was involved in a robbery that turned into a murder.

Prosecutors allege a woman stabbed an 80-year-old Uber driver on Monday in Chicago, Illinois, after he made a simple mistake.

Radical anti-Israel demonstrators hindered the New York Police Department’s response to a reported explosive device found by an Uber driver, according to authorities who were unable to reach the site of the scene in due time as a result.

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.

Uber Eats announced it will soon accept food stamp benefits for grocery delivery to reduce “barriers” to healthy food, Fox Business reported.

Uber was supposed to reduce traffic and carbon emissions, but a study has found that it ended up increasing both. Now, an MIT professor and a CEO have written an op-ed stating that Robotaxis will make the situation even worse.

In a landmark case that has drawn international attention, the transgender convicted felon operator of a self-driving Uber vehicle that struck and killed a pedestrian in 2018 has pleaded guilty to endangerment, avoiding a prison sentence.

Los taxistas en Cancún han estado atacando a los conductores de Uber y hasta turistas en un intento por mantener un monopolio de facto en el sector del transporte. Los taxistas han usado bates, piedras, cuchillos e incluso pistolas para

Taxi drivers in Cancun have been attacking Uber drivers and tourists in an attempt to keep a defacto monopoly on the transportation sector. Taxi drivers used bats, rocks, knives, and even handguns to intimidate and attack ride-share app drivers. At times, the taxi drivers also attacked tourists using the ride-share services.

In a significant move towards the mass commercialization of autonomous delivery, Serve Robotics is set to deploy up to 2,000 of its sidewalk delivery robots on the Uber Eats platform across multiple U.S. markets.

Uber’s Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Bo Young Lee, has been put on temporary leave by the woke Silicon Valley giant following employee backlash over an event she moderated titled “Don’t Call Me Karen” which focused on the negative connotations of the stereotype about white women. Outraged employees felt the event minimized the experiences of minorities, resulting in the company announced, “We have heard that many of you are in pain and upset by yesterday’s Moving Forward session.”

Ride-sharing service Lyft is reportedly set to cut at least 1,200 more jobs in an attempt to reduce costs.

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.

An economist who predicted in 2013 that nearly half of all jobs in the U.S. were under threat from “computerization” is now saying that AI programs like ChatGPT could be as disruptive to the labor market as Uber was for taxis.

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.

Uber’s former head of security, Joe Sullivan, has been found guilty on charges that he did not disclose a breach of customer and driver records to government regulators.

According to recently released data, Uber and Lyft drivers were involved in 1,098 crashes in the city of Boston last year, accounting for approximately a quarter of all motor vehicle collisions in the city.

Ridesharing giant Uber recently announced that its systems had been infiltrated by a hacker, now the company is claiming that the hacker is affiliated with the Lapsus$ hacking group that made headlines last year after hacking companies including Microsoft and Nvidia.

Ridesharing giant Uber says that is investigating a “cybersecurity incident” after a hacker claiming to be just 18 years old stated that they have administrator access to company tools.

Consumers’ Research is calling out Uber for its “gross hypocrisy in its treatment towards women” as the company has decided to fund abortion travel for employees while facing multiple allegations from women.

Ridesharing giant Uber has been sued by more than 500 women who claim to have been sexually assaulted by drivers who provide services for the company.

Current French President Emmanuel Macron is alleged to have “secretly” worked to make arrangements beneficial to big tech transport firm Uber, reports have claimed.

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.

A woman named Victoria Partridge said her Uber passengers assaulted her recently in Las Vegas, and she is still recovering.