Sentences with phrase «drivers money in»

That can save drivers money in the long run at the pump.

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Surge pricing, like the kind Uber uses, helps incentivize contract workers like drivers or, in this case, valets to sign into this system and make extra money for working.

And while Uber continues to lower its fares, Fasten approaches its business in a manner that will allow drivers to get more money and larger cuts of every ride that they give.

Yesterday, he was caught in a video upbraiding a driver for the company who complained about falling rates, saying he had lost money working with the company.

Uber drivers, as well as drivers for Lyft and other ride - hailing companies, are increasingly turning to alternative measures in the hopes of making more money on the job.

As a result, a cottage industry aimed at bringing in more money for drivers has been born.

In October, the company announced a partnership with Hertz that will provide very short - term car rentals to Lyft drivers at rates it claims are low enough that they can still make money after they pay the fees.

There was the death of a Tesla driver in May who had been using the autopilot mode at the time, prompting questions about the safety of the software, the explosion of a SpaceX rocket in September that also destroyed a satellite from the Mark Zuckerberg - led nonprofit Internet.org, and SolarCity's continuous habit of bleeding money.

Mobileye N.V., whose collision - avoidance technology has been adopted in cars made by the likes of BMW AG and General Motors Co., said on Sunday it had raised money from five investors that valued its equity at $ 1.5 billion, highlighting the market potential for driver - assistance systems.

Noting that the San Francisco ride - sharing startup lost somewhere north of $ 1.2 billion in the first half of 2016, Bloomberg's Justin Fox says that's a problem not because Uber's in danger of running out of money — it has raised around $ 15 billion — but because it spent that money without getting anything concrete in return, on ephemeral stuff like incentives to attract new drivers.

For the driver, an hourlong trip with no idle time resulted in steady earnings (Uber drivers make money only when riders are in the car).

A spokesperson said the latest accounts made clear that «the vast majority of the money made by driver partners, restaurants and delivery partners using the Uber or Uber Eats app stays in the local economy».

Certainly «I'm an Uber driver» isn't as impressive to the in - laws, but the money is green all the same.

With the investment money, Reuters noted GO - JEK is now valued at roughly $ 5 billion and will be able to compete better in Southeast Asia, which is characterized by a highly competitive market where incentives are given to both drivers and customers to gain market share and build loyalty.

At the Robin Hood Investors Conference in New York on Tuesday, Lyft said it expected to generate about $ 1 billion in annualized gross revenue next year, a figure that does not account for the cut of money the drivers take from each transaction.

The major long - term driver of the gold price is confidence in the official money and in the institutions (governments, central banks and private banks) that create / promote / sponsor the official money.

Whether you recently got your driver's license for the first time, or you finally have enough money coming in to manage a car payment, this major purchase is a huge milestone in life for many.

There's no way to tell for sure, but we hypothesize that running out of money, team breakups, and other factors are the primary reason for the precipitous drop - off between Seed and Series A, whereas acquisitions and reaching financial sustainability are larger drivers of the more steady declines in matriculation after Series A.

In fairness, that kind of obnoxious cultural elitism would be harmless on its own, but its the backdrop and driver of a plot oriented toward a selfish kid winning a bunch of fame and money.

At one point, Phillips says, the taxi drivers at the Allahabad train station started putting Yeshu Darbar's name on their vehicles because they wanted to divert its visitors in order to make money.

Just look at Pastor Maldonado - he brought loads of money and is the only driver to have won for Williams in over 13 years!

The National Guard sponsorship is one of the more important and tenured partners in the paddock allowing a team to find a driver without them needing to bring their own money.

As a driver he was the No. 1 money - winner a dozen times in the»50s and»60s, including one stretch of eight straight years.

Myself I can imagine Klopp in the drivers seat but Wenger controls the board and is in bed with the money man Kroenke so it «s up to «Silent Stan «I «m afraid.

«Drivers today need to find money to race — a lot of money — and you have to be a driver, a sponsor hunter, out trying to promote yourself to find more money and all of these things just to keep yourself in IndyCar,» Tagliani said.

«In the old days, before we had a set number of engines per driver you can use, you could use one engine per race and that cost a lot of money.

If Honda can't get its act together, there's a lot at risk — a good position in the constructors» standings for prize money, drawing in a potential sponsor and even losing its lead driver Fernando Alonso.

It had all the money, all the resources and some pretty decent drivers, yet in eight seasons didn't manage a single win.

Unfortunately the money for the programme became tight and from then until his retirement from racing 1970 he only sporadically appeared in F1, preferring instead to try and win the Indy 500 (one of the few things he didn't manage to achieve - as a driver, at least).

It's the first month of 2011 and Carlos Slim, one of the richest men in the world, is throwing Telmex money behind a young Mexican driver.

It's a big hit for Williams to lose a big money title sponsor but with two young drivers who we all know bring in plenty of cash, hopefully it won't affect the independent team too harshly.

Following on from the Indy 500, the prize money that's awarded to all the drivers who competed in the famous event in 2017 has been revealed.

Whenever there's a great deal of sponsorship money involved in a driver appointment, there is always those calling out the pay driver.

«Scott Dixon, who was my teammate last year, I think he's one of the best drivers in the world and he could give anyone a run for their money in a Formula 1 car - but no one has ever given him a look - in, like when there was a seat going at Mercedes.»

Points in F1 are still what scores money — and scoring points with useless drivers is impossible.

FI has done a great job with little money in terms of the car, the drivers work well together and seem to have a passion, as does the entire team.

The new argument could be that if CP passes, drivers will sit in less traffic, reduce the gas they burn through less idling, and save money.

According to an eyewitness, trouble started when some toll - collecting touts operating in the area demanded for an undisclosed amount of money from a tipper driver who was delivering granite to a location in the area.

In the United States, only the insurer is sued for any significant amount of money unless the driver is well to do.

The untowards acts include killing drivers in the process of money extortion, aiding and abbeting kidnapping, armed robberies, wilful killings of innocent citizens.

«That union money — the few pence freely given every week, by nurses, shop workers and truck drivers — is the cleanest cash in politics today.

«We were in this country when some governments prioritised buying V8 Land Cruisers for chiefs and friends with our oil money, but this government has come to use that oil money to provide us with Free SHS, making it possible for all drivers, whether we have the money or not, to benefit from and so we thank President Akufo - Addo.

But several aspects of the plan — including the use of $ 25 million in taxpayer money to turn public property into a stable for the private carriage industry, the move to curtail the pedicab industry, the loss of carriage driver jobs and the resulting shuttering the current stables on the West Side — have aroused considerable opposition from various corners, most recently from 68 owners of horse carriage medallions, who blasted their union for agreeing to the deal.

His father, who came to Britain in the 1960s, was a bus driver and his mother made extra money working as a seamstress from home.

It seems more plausible that the Mateos raised money from livery and nightclub industry associates, and from neighbors and other business connections who have interests in upper Manhattan and the Bronx, perhaps in order to get leverage in the de Blasio administration when it comes to smoothing over the rougher edges in their business model, which at the end of the day still demands that either the rider or the driver discriminate on the basis of sex, and thus runs afoul of the law.

In a year or so, drivers heading from Albany to Buffalo could find it as easy to drop money into slot machines near a Thruway exit as they can to grab a burger or doughnuts at a highway rest stop.

At the same meeting in which the top Wisconsin transportation official argued for raising more money for the state's roads, rails, harbors and airports, he acknowledged that the number of miles drivers are traveling has fallen behind predictions.

The on topic Q&A included redesign plans for other streets, especially Queens Boulevard, why the administration attributes the reduction in pedestrian fatalities to Vision Zero and not to regular year - to - year variances, how the administration actually knows that driving speeds are reduced, why so few street redesign projects have been done on Staten Island, data for any changes in safety at this E.Tremont / Silver Street intersection, why Commissioner Bratton did not attend, why there are few speeding and failure to yield tickets issued in this (45th) precinct, the negative effect of speed bumps on emergency response vehicles, plans for marking and painting of roads, whether the mayor will seek additional red light camera authorizations from the state legislature, the paucity of criminal prosecutions against drivers who kill pedestrians and an estimate of money received from speed camera tickets.

The mayor was pummeled by the apps, particularly Uber, which ran ads highlighting the service's popularity with lower - income, minority New Yorkers who were trying to earn some extra money as drivers or were just happy to finally get a cab in a part of town where yellow taxis wouldn't venture.

After taxi driver David Wilkie was killed in the miners strike, labour should have refused money from the NUM