Sentences with phrase «hire vehicles last»

Polly Trottenberg, left, the city's transportation commissioner, and Meera Joshi, the taxi commissioner, at a Council hearing about for - hire vehicles last month.

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Last month, a bill that would cap the number of for - hire vehicles given permits — including the cars of people who drive for Uber and Lyft — was defeated after vocal protests by Uber drivers and its supporters.

The division hired former Hyundai exec John Krafcik as its CEO last fall, but has not yet announced a business model or plans to expand its tech beyond its custom demo vehicles.

Musk last year hired chip design legend Jim Keller, who had been at AMD (amd) for years, sparking speculation that the electric carmaker would go that route to enhance the self - driving capability of future vehicles.

The family of a man who died when his Tesla Model X vehicle crashed into a highway median last month has hired a San Francisco - based law firm to...

Cuomo has mentioned several things in the last week: a surcharge on for - hire vehicles like Uber and Lyft to generate funds for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, requirements that school districts provide a school - by - school breakdown of their spending, and more funding for the New York City Housing Authority.

Last year, the Nassau TLC issued 4,884 violations to for - hire vehicles operating illegally in Nassau.

Last year there were 2,394 licensed for - hire vehicles, including taxis, limos and black cars, in Nassau County

Johnson created a new committee dedicated specifically to for - hire vehicles like Uber and Lyft — and gave its chairmanship to Ruben Diaz Sr., who got at least $ 11,800 in campaign contribution from employees and owners of taxi, limousine and dispatch companies for his election last year.

For - hire registration and insurance policy terms last one year, and are renewed on a specific month depending the vehicle's class code.

Elsewhere in Europe, Uber has used a professional taxi service offering as a vehicle to return to some markets — reopening an offering in Barcelona last month, for example, after buying private hire vehicle licenses from a local operator.

After London sent ripple's of shock through Silicon Valley last year by denying Uber a renewal of its private hire vehicle license, the city's transport regulator is doubling down on its scrutiny of the impact of app - based ride operators.

Headquartered in Gardena, California, Faraday Future seemingly came up out of nowhere late last year to announce it had plans to revolutionize transportation with an autonomous car concept, revealed its huge Chinese financial backing, bragged about major hires including the BMW i8 former head of design as well as a co-founder of Tesla, and touted a confident promise to produce vehicles for the road by 2020.