(ADULT LANGUAGE WARNING) A YouTube video was uploaded Tuesday of what appears to be a University of Miami medical resident going on a drunken tirade with an Uber driver has made its way around the internet. YouTube user Juan Cinco, who uploaded
On Wednesday, Uber announced it would enable nonviolent felons whose sentences have been reduced to misdemeanors to apply as drivers, according to CBS San Francisco.
With the rise of Uber, Airbnb, and TaskRabbit, there’s a sinking suspicion that the traditional 9-5 job is being replaced by flexible, independent contract work. But, despite the existence of multiple billion-dollar Silicon Valley startups hiring an army of independent contract workers, economists have had difficulty finding any evidence that Americans were more likely to be self-employed.
In light of the Democrat-sponsored gun control following the San Bernardino attack, it is crucial to remember the important role armed citizens play in keeping themselves and others safe.
Uber’s poaching spree continues as the multibillion-dollar company has snatched away a second executive from Google Maps, Manik Gupta.
Mercedes-Benz research and development lab in Sunnyvale, California is racing to beat Apple, Google and Uber to dominate commercial and luxury self-driving vehicles. Google, Tesla, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Volkswagen and four other developers of autonomous vehicles already have permission from
Acclaimed British actress Frances Barber has said she was verbally abused by a “sharia” Uber driver who accused her of dressing “disgustingly”. Ms Barber, who starred in BBC legal drama Silk, booked the Uber car home after attending the Evening
(Ferenstein Wire)—Silicon Valley is coming after unionized industries. A top investor in the Valley, Paul Graham, lit up Twitter, tweeting, “Any industry that still has unions has potential energy that could be released by startups. (I don’t mean in simply paying people less, but rather that industries afflicted by unions are sclerotic so have left lots undone.)”
During Veterans Day week in Chicago, a new transportation service for our military veterans is being launched. It combines the best of both the private and public sector to offer the potential for the nation’s first scalable veterans serving veterans initiative that could transform the lives of many veterans.
Justin Bieber is using the ride-sharing app Lyft to help launch his new album Purpose this week–and a few lucky users of the app could even get to share a ride with the pop star.
Bernie Sanders really isn’t a fan of Uber, the ride-share company he’s called “unregulated” with “serious problems” in an interview with Bloomberg in August. So it strikes us as odd that his own campaign uses this “unregulated service” a stunning 100
On Friday night, a video camera installed by an Uber driver recorded an argument between a seemingly drunk passenger and the driver that turned violent when the driver asked the passenger to leave.
A new video published on YouTube shows a Seattle Uber driver saved from a crash by his Tesla’s autopilot system.
SYDNEY, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Australia, where Uber is popular but mostly illegal, offers a microcosm of the company’s global challenges. Three years after launch, the service has failed to gain government approvals in most jurisdictions, and two criminal cases that
What’s more important, protecting the livelihoods of skilled white working class men endangered by globalisation, or getting the cheapest, and most convenient possible service? What you think about Uber probably says a lot about, at a fundamental level, what kind
British government body Transport for London (TfL) has proposed new regulation which would ban the key features of the Uber mini-cab service. Users of the service are furious and are flocking to sign a petition against the changes. The new
PARIS (AP) — Two European Uber executives are facing the possibility of prison in a French trial hinging on the ride-hailing service’s lowest-cost service. While that service has already been banned in France, the trial that started Wednesday reflects larger
BRUSSELS, Belgium – UKIP leader Nigel Farage spoke at Politico’s second Playbook Breakfast meeting in Brussels this morning, detailing his thoughts on Britain’s EU referendum campaign, the ongoing migrant crisis, and telling Eurocrats in the room that he wanted them
AMSTERDAM, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Dutch prosecutors said on Tuesday they have raided Uber‘s European headquarters in Amsterdam as part of a criminal investigation into whether the company is offering illegal taxi services. A spokeswoman for the Netherlands’ national financial crimes
Videos of unionized and municipally-licensed taxi drivers harassing and intimidating Uber drivers and their customers in large Canadian cities are surfacing online.
A technical glitch during New Year’s Eve turned out to be an information treasure trove for Uber. Last New Year’s Eve in NYC, the surge pricing algorithms failed and didn’t allow Uber to incentivize more drivers to get on the road with higher pay, just as partygoers rushed to call drivers; only 1 in 4 of users who wanted a driver actually got one.
Since Uber began getting regularly hammered in the press for its aggressive political tactics and potential legal violations, the once outspoken CEO hasn’t given the public much direction about the future of the multibillionaire transportation company.
(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.
U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, a Barack Obama appointee, granted class action status to a lawsuit claiming Uber Technologies Inc. illegally classifies its on-call drivers as independent contractors, rather than employees with rights and benefits.
All Pac-12 UCLA Bruins football player Ishmael Adams appears in court this afternoon after his arrest on felony robbery charges on Sunday morning.
(Ferenstein Wire)—The taxi industry has launched yet another high-profile attempt to conquer their arch nemesis Uber. The upcoming Arro, like many of its predecessors, is an app for hailing and paying for a taxi, much like other ride-hailing companies out of Silicon Valley. Every similar app, so far, has either completely shut down shortly after launch or failed to slow the rise of Uber.
On August 23, Mother Jones published an article showing that, on average, fewer people are killed in “public mass shootings” in the U.S. versus other countries.
Popular social media service Snapchat lost more than $100 million during an 11-month period in 2014, according to leaked financial documents from the company.
Uber’s low-cost service, UberX, reduces drunk driving deaths all over California and may be responsible for a drop in DUIs on NYE.
A group of 13 Connecticut taxi and livery companies and the Taxicabs and Livery Council of Connecticut filed a lawsuit in May of last year against Uber and Lyft, claiming that they had created “illegal transportation services that violate federal and state laws and regulations,” and that the companies “deceive customers about the fares they must pay, the safety of the cars and drivers transporting them, the insurance coverage available, and the legality of their offered services.”
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Police raided the Hong Kong offices of taxi-hailing service Uber Inc on Tuesday and arrested five drivers for the “illegal use of vehicles for hire”, police said.
The video below shows the dramatic moment when an “eco-friendly” Toyota Prius burst into flames on the Euston Road in London last night. The London Ambulance Service told the Evening Standard: “We were called at 11.52pm yesterday to reports of
A horde of angry taxicab drivers attacked users of the ride-sharing app Uber in Mexico City. The assailants vandalized various cars in an effort to halt the use of the app.
“Death to America!” scream Iranians who have just negotiated an agreement that has won them invaluable concessions from Americans, which includes the releasing of over $100 billion in assets that had been frozen. That deal assures that in fifteen years
The alleged hacking followed several weeks of extremely negative press for Planned Parenthood in response to videos released by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP). Intriguingly, while PP’s website does not show any negative changes from the alleged hackers, it does display a message that many critics are challenging is a public relations stunt. Even if PP was legitimately targeted by hackers over the weekend, there are a number of indicators that at this point, their website issues have been deliberately triggered.
Progressive New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s supposed effort to end social inequality by crushing Uber was curbed last week when his liberal city council allies were blindsided by a viral millennial generation revolt in favor of the ride-sharing app.
Rapper and businessman Jay Z has put his money in a mobile app that helps its users book on-demand private jets, though a service that is being billed as Uber for flying.
Last week New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a move to put a cap on the growth of the popular smartphone app-based transportation company Uber. He planned to limit the number of cars Uber would be allowed to field across the city. But this week, in the face of criticism, de Blasio has abandoned his plan.
Uber just won a huge political battle. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has dropped a proposal to place caps on the number of Uber cars on city streets, according to a statement released by Uber’s New York general manager Josh Mohrer.
(Ferenstein Wire) — Self-driving cars will save the average driver about $1,000 annually, or cost $250 a year total, according to estimates from auto insurance startup Metromile.
