Rideshare News
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Uber and Careem to Partner?
Uber Technologies Inc. and Careem Networks FZ are in preliminary talks to combine their Middle Eastern ride-hailing services, hoping to …
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Uber and Lyft Loyalty Programs to be released soon!
There will be different tiers but some perks you can expect are $$ off rides, getting surge rides free of …
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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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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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Tesla’s Autopilot steered car toward barrier before deadly crash, investigators say
You read that right. This guy's Tesla made a decision to crash itself. Horrifying. https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/7/17438194/tesla-autopilot-fatal-crash-ntsb-report
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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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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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Uber buy bikeshare company, Jump
Looks like they want to add bike travel to the Uber app. Knowing Uber's prices this will cost pennies lol …
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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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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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Lyft becomes the first ride-hail company to go public, beating Uber
Welp, here it is folks.https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/1/18246328/lyft-ipo-ride-share-bikes-scooters-uber-public-secI am surprised to see how much Lyft's market share has increased in the …
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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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Cops are posing as Uber drivers in undercover vehicles
This article talks about cop cars being disguised as Uber vehicles complete with an Uber sticker. Have you ever seen …
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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 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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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 …
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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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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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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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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. …