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What do you think of Lyft's $299/mo subscription plan to replace car ownership?
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/16/17978626/lyft-monthly-subscription-plan-nationwide Lyft’s monthly subscription experiment is going national. The ride-hailing company has been tinkering with subscriptions since earlier this year, …
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Uber, Lyft: Gig economy employees are facing a heightened retirement crisis
Americans are increasingly falling behind on their retirement savings, and it could be even worse for the millions working in …
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Uber deploys JUMP electric scooters in Santa Monica, offers free rides ...
Free rides on JUMP scooters until 10/7! Be careful though my friend cracked a rib on one of these bad …
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A married woman and her lover called an Uber to go to a hotel—her husband was the driver
Well this is awkward... https://www.newsweek.com/married-woman-and-lover-call-uber-go-hotel-husband-comes-driver-1142460?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_medium=Social
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Female driver kidnaps female college student
The college student eventually escaped through the window. Wonder what was going through this drivers head... https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article218784125.html
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Women Posing As Rideshare Drivers Have Robbed People 9 Times In 3 Months
This is in Chicago. Passengers mistakenly think they’re getting into a ride ordered from a rideshare company like Lyft or …
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Uber Eats in Italy investigated over alleged migrant worker exploitation
It is alleged by prosecutors that a migrant who worked as a rider for one week in May, for a …
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Godfather 1 and Uber shut the driver up feature
Really ??? What is your opinion and how does this go beyond what America stands for ?
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Why the Uber model of diplomacy won't work for scooter startups [Recode]
This is is an article from this morning. It's a new industry that's trying to learn from its history. (and …
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Driver strikes didn’t break Uber - but they showed gig economy workers are mad. [Vox]
Feel the Bern!Demanding higher wages and benefits, thousands of Uber and Lyft drivers in over two dozen cities around …
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Don't Cross the Line
I hope we get to see some stats as to how the strike actually went today. I wonder how much …
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3 more top Uber managers resign amid backlash from data breach
"Three senior managers have resigned from Uber's international, business operations and physical security teams." - Soon there will be no …
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Since when did Lyft turn their site blue? Aren't they supposed to be pink?
Went to Lyft.com today and everything was blue - where is the pink?
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Uber Launches a Credit Card!
"the new card gives Uber yet another point of access to incredibly valuable customer information" https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/25/uber-launches-a-credit-card/
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Christmas came early for drivers in CA, Uber will show pick-up and drop off address of passenger and much more before accepting the ride!
It is about time, we are getting what we asked for a decade!https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/drivers-are-finally-getting-what-they-want-is-uber-relenting-to-the-ca-ab5-law
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Uber isn't backing down!
Uber announced it is going to continue operating Canadian province of Quebec, despite previous threats. http://fortune.com/2017/10/15/uber-quebec-service-jean-nicolas-guillamette/
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Driverless Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, Self Driving Cars - Which term are we using?!
Let's all get on board here and start using just one of these terms - what's your vote?
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Can A Toyota Deal Save Uber’s Robotaxi Dreams – And CEO’s IPO Hopes? [Forbes]
"The Japanese automotive giant will invest $500 million in the U.S. ride-hailing company and also supply a purpose-built vehicle based …
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Introducing Uber Health, Removing Transportation as a Barrier to Care
"Today, we’re introducing Uber Health as a way to partner with healthcare organizations to provide reliable, comfortable transportation for …
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Uber spends how much on ads?!
HALF A BILLION! Yep. You heard that right. https://www.fastcompany.com/40583434/uber-will-spend-half-a-billion-dollars-on-ad-campaigns-this-year