Sentences with phrase «like taxi companies»

For its part, the mayor's office says that it views Uber and Lyft as fundamentally technology companies that shouldn't be regulated like taxi companies.

As an exaggerated snapshot of life in the 2010s, it was inevitable Watch Dogs 2 would include an Uber - like taxi company.

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Other companies, like Uber, are developing their own electric flying taxis.

According to a snazzy computer rendering from the company, it's building perfectly symmetrical, bidirectional, neon - green - and - black robo - taxis that look like giant remote - control toys.

Critics swiftly accused the ridesharing company of attempting to undermine or profit from a work stoppage by taxi drivers that had been called by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an AFL - CIO affiliate that represents many immigrants, and whose work has been largely focused on stopping the encroachment of ride - hailing companies like Utaxi drivers that had been called by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an AFL - CIO affiliate that represents many immigrants, and whose work has been largely focused on stopping the encroachment of ride - hailing companies like UTaxi Workers Alliance, an AFL - CIO affiliate that represents many immigrants, and whose work has been largely focused on stopping the encroachment of ride - hailing companies like Uber.

Instead, they'll be put into service with ride - hailing companies like Uber Technologies and Lyft: They'll be automated taxis, limited (at least at first) to well - mapped cities.

Uber is the extremely fast - growing company behind an app that lets city dwellers hail taxis, sedans, and SUVs — like the ones parked out front.

Companies like Uber and Lyft, which have created ride - hailing smartphone applications, are fighting long - entrenched incumbents in the taxi and limousine industry.

Line, the messaging app company, has been the most successful new entrant with its Uber - like ride - hailing service, but Japanese taxi companies have adapted to the competition by bringing on - demand features their services, as the Financial Times recently reported.

Other companies include Chronobank, a platform hat is looking to disrupt the HR and recruitment business much like Uber disrupted the taxi business.

The panel would establish a separate surcharge on taxis and for - hire companies like Uber and Lyft, but it left the details on that politically fraught topic for another day.

Five of the six recommendations for making those early mass transit improvements rely in whole or in part on New York City: overhauling the city's parking placard system, which de Blasio has expanded; improving traffic enforcement in New York City, which his NYPD controls; reforming the city system that governs taxis and for - hire companies like Uber; assessing the impact of bus congestion on the central business district; and identifying transit improvements in the outer boroughs.

Both Uber and Lyft have conducted an extensive public lobbying campaign over the last year to expand services, especially in upstate cities like Buffalo, which is being countered by an effort to block the measure by upstate taxi and livery companies.

ALBANY — Having secured a victory in the streets of New York City and over its mayor, the ride - sharing company Uber announced a legislative and public relations push on Tuesday to expand its business to taxi - and job - challenged cities like Buffalo, Rochester and Albany.

Ride - sharing companies can currently operate in New York City under an arrangement with the city's powerful regulator, the Taxi & Limousine Commission, that treats them like traditional for - hire car companies rather than full ride - sharing platforms built in part on casual drivers.

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.

Desai said she also fears that taxi drivers, who are struggling to make money under stiff competition from ride app companies like Uber and Lyft, will lose more money because of the new law.

Before the advent of Uber (and similar upstarts like Lyft), competition between taxi companies occurred only within the rigid structure of bureaucratic taxi fiefdoms.

The company has also faced legal battles overseas in places like Germany, where courts went after Uber because drivers don't have the required permits or insurance taxi drivers are supposed to have.

Save all the numbers you might need for your destination ahead of time, like local taxi companies and restaurants.

Though it sounds like a smoothie option at the local mall or landscaping company, Green4U is focused on building electric vehicles for taxi fleets, municipalities, the military, and the general public.

«Say «Ok Google» to get stuff done, like calling a taxi, sending a text, making a restaurant reservation or setting an alarm,» Sunder Pichai revealed in a company blog post.

Despite recent cutbacks to what it considers «travel», Barclays still has a far broader definition than most other credit card companies — counting things like taxis, limousines, timeshares, trains, and buses.

I am so sorry to hear about the poor experience with the taxi company, i would like to inform you that unfortunately we do not manage the them and your feedback is very important to us so we can investigate and follow up in order to avoid unpleasant situations for our customers.

The legal industry is fundamentally different from industries like retail stores or taxi companies, mainly in that «legal services» is a fundamentally broad and nebulous concept that can be different state - to - state, county - to - county, city - to - city.

Now with more companies providing taxi - like transportation services, such as Uber and Lyft, there has been an increase in the number of taxi crashes across the country which can seriously injure passengers and / or pedestrians.

Most compensation for car accidents that involve other cars or commercial vehicles like taxis, Ubers, buses, and semi-trucks comes from insurance companies.

Peer - to - peer taxi companies like Uber and Lyft have faced incessant legal action initiated by traditional municipal taxi services.

The company has expanded rapidly, especially in large cities like Boston where residents, tourists, and business professionals have become frustrated with the inefficiencies of taxi services.

Although ride - share companies like Uber and Lyft have become a popular means of transportation, tourists, business travelers, and residents still rely on the nearly 9,500 licensed Chicago taxi drivers to get around the city.

Some insurance companies will not insure certain types of commercial vehicles, like taxi and limo services, hazardous waste haulers, emergency vehicles, and driving schools.

We're not just talking about Uber and Lyft or taking taxis everywhere: today, vehicle sharing companies like Car2Go, ZipCar, and AutoShare are available in cities across North America.

Traditional taxi companies use Taxify's web - based dispatcher and fleet management systems to manage their back - end and unite under Taxify's consumer facing app to stay competitive against expanding networks like Hailo and Uber.

Due to regulations that require taxi drivers to hold special licenses, companies like Uber can't offer ride - sharing services in Tokyo and other major Japanese cities (instead, Uber currently operates only in small, rural towns where there weren't any taxi companies).

So for a public company like Airbus (market cap $ 76 billion), with all its stockholders and board members, to be invested in a ludicrous - sounding venture like «flying taxis,» it can't help but feel like we're on the cusp of some major breakthroughs.

At least 19 companies are developing air taxi plans, including legacy manufacturers like Boeing and Airbus, big tech firms like Uber, and small startups like Kitty Hawk, owned by Google founder Larry Page.