Rideshare News
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Uber Driver Helps Woman Escape The Clutches Of A Creepy Nice Guy
Too good not to share. A heroic Uber driver, Brandon Gale:Last night, while driving for Uber, I got a …
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Uber "Driver" was a convicted felon x 2. Four times in prison previously.
"Tempe police have identified the driver as 44-year-old Rafael Vasquez. It appears that Vasquez spent more than four years in …
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Drivers & Passengers, Is Uber and Lyft destroying our world? Read new study and share your thoughts.
Thoughts? Please share your opinion.https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/02/04/all-the-bad-things-about-uber-and-lyft-in-one-simple-list/
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Uber books half London theatre for "Brilliant Jerks" play (an Uber Satire)
The producers of Brilliant Jerks, a play inspired by the story of the ridehail giant, Uber, are unnerved after 50 …
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Women knowingly get in wrong Uber and are then surprised when the driver is sketchy.
Can we really keep blaming Uber at this point? Perhaps we should just let Darwinism weed out the dumb.“Although …
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Drama for Lyft, passenger killed after being forced out of car
Apparently the lyft driver claims the passenger gradded his steering wheel so he ordered him out of his car on …
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Algorithm of Uber vs Grab
Hi everyone. I am a graduate school student currently working on my report regarding uber and grab computation of fares. …
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Value of Uber plummets 20%
Uber’s valuation dropped 20 percent, according to some investors Three firms say Uber shares are worth a lot less than …
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Uber in talks with crowdsourced bus company, Skedaddle
Does anyone else think Uber is spreading themselves too thin? It seems everytime I turn around there is another new …
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As was predicted, Uber’s IPO means you’ll be paying higher fares for your rides
This article nicely sums up what I think a lot of us were already thinking.As we’ve reported before, Uber's …
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Man gets out of jail. Man hails taxi. Man can't pay taxi. Man sent back to jail.
This is why our system is broken. What else wasa this guys supposed to do, walk? If he got in …
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Baidu to start making autonomous electric buses
Not sure if I am supposed to be excited about these AV electric buses and rising competition. Something about all …
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Uber parties for IPO were so wild an employee had to resign
Now we wait until what triggered the terminations. This article doesn’t have much details.My money in on sexual harassment, …
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Man charged with attacking and carjacking Lyft Driver.
How come when the situations are reverse (uber/lyft driver attacks passenger) it is HUGE news yet when a passenger attacks …
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On-Demand Moving & Furniture Delivery App - Phlatbed
Everyone has been there….new job, new city, new apartment and the dreaded occasional furniture or item purchase and getting it …
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Delivery app for furniture and online marketplaces like Facebook Marketplace
Picking up items from online marketplaces like Facebook is now easy with ondemand moving apps like PhlatbedImagine buying an …
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Uber launches PIN feature to cut wait times at U.S. airports
"Uber is piloting a new PIN feature at the Portland International Airport that will give riders a one-time 6-digit numeric …
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Uber & Lyft admit via their own study that rideshare makes traffic worse!
Wasn't their original premise that U/L would solve a lot of the traffic problems in big cities. Mind you this …
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Do you think Uber and Lyft will follow through on their threat to go dark in California?
"Uber and Lyft are threatening to halt their ridesharing service in California after a judge rejected the companies’ effort to …
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Nationwide 24 hour Uber/Lyft Driver's Strike May 8
So who's in?https://drivers-united.org/strikeGotta admit it's pretty shrewd to do this on the day of Uber's IPO. Let em …