Sentences with phrase «of ride services»

San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon says this is just another example of ride service companies ignoring regulations.

Uber has been involved in a long list of scandals recently that have made the future of the ride service uncertain.

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Take Uber, for example: The ride - sharing company has taken a foray into the world of food delivery, and the service — which, according to The New York Times, is available in 120 markets worldwide — sometimes earns more than Uber's original offering.

Three women engineers have sued Uber for discrimination based of their gender and race, the latest blow to the ride - services company that is straining to overcome a year of controversies over its workplace culture.

It recently announced that it would launch a ride - hailing service of its own in China to compete against local giant Didi Chuxing.

Uber Technologies must promptly return stolen confidential files to Alphabet's (googl) Waymo self - driving car unit, a federal judge ruled, while stopping short of shutting down the ride - services company's autonomous car program.

While Uber has spent billions expanding overseas — it's currently available in 581 cities in 81 countries worldwide — Lyft has partnerships with international ride - hailing services but still has no presence of its own outside the United States.

The ride - hailing service published details of its «on demand aviation» ambitions last year which it has called Uber Elevate.

Last April, Daimler launched Moovel, a series of apps that allow users to book and pay for public transportation and see how well it integrates with other transit options, such as bike - or ride - hailing services, to get to a final destination.

In addition to driverless cars, increased usage of ride - sharing and ride - hailing services are projected to generate $ 1 trillion in revenue for suppliers globally by 2040, latest industry figures indicate, according to SCMP.

Fasten differentiates itself by taking a 99 - cent cut of every ride facilitated on its service, unlike Uber and Lyft, which both take percent cuts of every fare.

And now Daimler is investing in Via in order to launch the ride - sharing service in London by the end of the year and other European cities to follow.

And it's possible the province will update their transportation laws since the outgoing Liberal government has pledged to legalize ride - sharing services by the end of the year.

As part of the deal between Volkswagen and China's biggest ride - hailing service, expected to be signed early next...

The Democratic former Secretary of State worries about ride - sharing service drivers making ends meet, but also praises the company for «creating exciting opportunities,» the Times reported.

Uber directors on Tuesday voted to allow Japan's SoftBank to invest in the ride services company and approved a series of governance changes that increases the independence of the board and decreases the influence of former CEO Travis Kalanick.

To play «backseat DJ,» you first need to connect your Spotify account with your Uber profile; when you request a ride, a music bar will appear at the bottom of the Uber app and you can select a playlist from your Spotify account while you wait for your car to show (although this only works if you get a music - enabled car, a detail that's apparently stressing out Uber drivers with older vehicles who fear they'll be penalized for not offering the service).

Logan Green and John Zimmer, co-founders of the Lyft ride - sharing service pledged to donate $ 1 million to the ACLU over the next four years.

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters)- France is entitled to bring criminal proceedings against local managers of ride - hailing app Uber for running an illegal taxi service, the EU top court ruled on Tuesday, dealing the Silicon Valley start - up another legal setback.

Barra brings experience helping GM, one of America's most well - known companies, adapt to a changing technological landscape, including the advent of ride - share services and self - driving cars.

Swan Taxis has launched an update for its app, which now allows customers to book a cab ride and make automatic cashless payments with the use of a credit card, similar to the service offered by competitor Uber.

Offers ride - hailing and taxi hailing services by connecting drivers with corporate and private passengers through the use of an app.

It's not often that a breath of fresh air wafts out of Europe, but last night was a time for a few revolutionary comments about business, specifically that ride - sharing service Uber is «not a problem, just a new business model».

The Chinese firm agreed to acquire control of Brazil's ride service 99, the companies announced earlier this month.

Other automakers are exploring self - driving, ride - sharing services, but not so much the prospect of letting owners elect when it is used in a fleet setting or not.

Montreal - based IT services giant CGI Group has much riding on CETA's completion after its recent $ 2.8 - billion acquisition of British rival Logica.

Its Messenger service can detect when people are in need of services, such as a taxi ride or a marketplace listing, by scanning their written communications.

But Honda's concept car envisions a ride - sharing service that is managed by the owners of the car.

Lyft's carpooling service, Lyft Line, accounted for the majority of rides in San Francisco as of the beginning of the year, Green said Monday.

Thanks to the rise of on - demand ride - sharing services like Uber and Lyft, the need to have a car (and a parking space) is lessening even for daily commuters.

Customers accuse the ride sharing service of attempting to profit from a taxi driver work stoppage.

Uber said it had formed a partnership with Yandex, the Russian search giant and operator of the ride - hailing service Yandex.Taxi.

This fundamental shift will reshape urban transportation, and is being driven by changes in the regulation, pricing, and workforce policies of ride - hailing services.

Ride - hailing services are angling to take over large portions of daily commutes.They're poised to become cheaper options for commuters to take advantage of, both through lower direct rates in markets where regulators are cutting fees, and through the use of pretax dollars, which could save consumers up to 30 % per ride - hailing tRide - hailing services are angling to take over large portions of daily commutes.They're poised to become cheaper options for commuters to take advantage of, both through lower direct rates in markets where regulators are cutting fees, and through the use of pretax dollars, which could save consumers up to 30 % per ride - hailing tride - hailing trip.

On the topic of temptation, Green said he learned a big lesson from the early days of his first company, Zimride, a ride - sharing service for college students and employees of local companies.

For Google, a ride - hailing service allows the company to turn one of its most expensive moon shot projects into a real moneymaking business.

Leimandt is part of a team of local tech leaders working to build RideAustin, a nonprofit ride - hailing service that will channel some revenue to charity.

Instead, I rode the coattails of my four short years of service, only to realize later that I wasn't nearly as mature or grown up as I thought.

A magazine «ride - along» program piqued his interest: a mailing broker told Edelman of a private mail - delivery service that could couple his catalog in a polybag with, for example, Seventeen magazine.

Walker even credits ride - hailing services like Uber and Lyft for changing the nature of business travel, specifically the willingness of people to stay in hotels a little farther away from their business.

The on - demand delivery service — offering rides, food, beauticians and more — has jolted the economies of even famously gridlocked cities like Jakarta, where small businesses have seen their sales soar once they've registered on the company's platform.

For its part, UberEats — which provides home delivery of food in Mexico City and is run by the ride - hailing company Uber — denied any involvement in the incident, telling Mexican news site Excelsior that delivery people using the service «are proprietors and solely responsible for the use of their backpacks.»

This isn't the first we've heard of Tesla's intention to develop a ride - hailing service, as Musk brought it up in his «Master Plan, Part Deux» released over the summer (emphasis ours):

General Motors (gm) invested $ 500 million in Lyft in January and laid out plans to develop an on - demand network of self - driving cars with the ride service.

TEMPE, Ariz. — The family of a woman killed by an Uber self - driving vehicle in Arizona has reached a settlement with the ride services company, ending a potential legal battle over the first fatality caused by an autonomous vehicle.

A single $ 24 movie ticket equals three months of Netflix, and cars are growing obsolete to younger people thanks to ride - hailing services like Uber and Lyft.

While apps Uber and Lyft allow almost anyone with a car to provide ride services, Blacklane has a fleet of cars and limousines helmed by professional drivers.

Uber has a system where it rewards new driver bonuses to people who sign up for its service and complete a certain number of rides.

Travis Kalanick, co-founder and CEO of ride - hailing service Uber, said Wednesday he's going to take as long as possible to go public — responding to critics and stressing he's focused on product and innovation, not liquidity.

The Scour team reformed as Red Swoosh, a peer - to - peer file - sharing service Akamai Technologies later bought for $ 19 million before founding Uber, ride - for - hire sharing service, with Garrett Camp, co-founder of StumbleUpon, and himself a graduate school dropout.