Sentences with phrase «of ride sharing services»

Furthermore, with a growing number of people foregoing car ownership in favor of ride sharing services such as Uber or Lyft, there may be fewer cars on the road and therefore less insurance customers.

Legislation will help boost Upstate NY economy, create new jobs and bring the convenience of ride sharing services like Uber and Lyft to the 49th Senate District

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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».

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

In Uber terms, it's less like an UberX ride that just transports one person and more like UberPool, the version of the ride - sharing service that lets commuters offer to drive other people to work with them.

It's been expanding into a dizzying array of fields, including cloud computing, messaging, mobile, mapping, TV, ride - sharing, taxi services, media and crowd - funding.

Many of its investments have been with American firms, including Amazon rival Shoprunner, ride - sharing service Lyft and Tango, a popular messaging app.

Ford will roll out a fleet of self - driving cars as part of a ride - sharing or - hailing service by 2021.

Offering a luxury ride - sharing service, Gett boasts that rides come without the element of surprise or surge fees.

Since that launch, Daimler has grown the Moovel app's utility by incorporating an increasing variety of transportation options, including public transportation, ride - hailing, and car - and bike - sharing services.

Ride - sharing service Uber's app is mocking New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's push of reducing on - demand for - hire vehicles in the city in a bid to reduce traffic snarls.

Uber and other ride - sharing services in China are bracing up for new draft rules issued by the nation's Ministry of Transport.

Even as Uber faces perhaps the most challenging time in its short corporate history, the ride - sharing app continues to add new features to its basic model, with the latest being the expansion of the UberEATS service.

Pay - per - use services such as car - sharing and ride - hailing are starting to challenge traditional car ownership in some in some of China's most congested cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, while global automakers are starting to bill themselves as «mobility» companies that do more than just build and sell vehicles.

Uber launched in Nevada on Oct. 24, adding Las Vegas and Carson City to its growing list of American metropolitan areas that have access to the company's ride - sharing services.

H&R Block's Charney notes that last - minute surprises may become more common as larger numbers of Americans earn self - employment income from things such as driving for a ride - sharing service, renting out a room in their home, or performing consulting services.

Ride - sharing services such as Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc., and the advent of electric vehicles and driverless cars, are poised to chip away at the higher prices that real estate around subways and bus stops has earned, according to a report from MetLife Inc.'s asset - management business released Tuesday.

New draft rules from China's Ministry of Transport could bring in tighter measures which companies offering ride - sharing services should strictly adhere to.

Finally, we believe that management's significant investments in new businesses, such as online - to - offline services (e.g., food delivery, ride sharing, etc.), are masking the strength of the core search business, which continues to grow at a healthy rate and generates significant profits.

The Philippine transport regulator said on August 25 that a one - month suspension ordered earlier this month on ride - sharing service Uber in the Philippines would only be lifted if a penalty of 190 million pesos ($ 3.7 million) would be paid.

«Ride - and car - sharing services are getting a lot of attention these days,» Karl Brauer, senior analyst for Kelley Blue Book, said at the time.

The latest round of financing will be the eighth that the ride - sharing service has sought over the last five years.

Uber spokesperson Chelsea Kohler told USA TODAY that the vehicles, whose number remains unspecified, are «for internal use only, have a safety driver up front and are not part of our ride - sharing service in the city.»

Oft - cited giant of the sharing economy, Uber, has taken their ride - sharing service a step further with «UberRUSH», using GPS enabled apps to connect drivers to ecommerce customers in real time for fast, last - mile delivery.

Its top competitor, ofo, raised $ 450 million in May from a range of investors including Chinese ride - sharing service Didi Chuxing.

The first commercial use of autonomous GM vehicles will be with ride - sharing services, Barra said.

Disney doesn't have buses that run directly from one hotel to another, so using a taxi or ride - sharing services for these hotel - to - hotel trips can really make sense in terms of time and logistics.

The fierce lobbying battle in Albany that led to expansion of ride - sharing services such as Uber and Lyft statewide has now moved to Long Island and Westchester County, where taxi interests hope to persuade suburban counties to opt out of the app - based transportation.

The momentum is building to get ride - sharing services up and running in Western New York for the Fourth of July holiday weekend,» Ranzenhofer said.

Cuomo's budget includes non-spending measures such as his slate of ethics reforms, allowing ride - hailing apps like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City and a plan to encourage local governments sharing services to reduce property taxes.

Assembly Democrats want local transportation services (which could be affected by ride sharing) to get between $ 6 million and $ 12 million of that.

If Gov. Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers hold a special session next week, they are likely to consider whether to allow ride - sharing services like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City.

The ride - sharing authorization would be tucked into the 2017 - 18 state budget — as long as lawmakers can settle one remaining sticking point: should local governments get a share of the taxes / fees that services would have to pay the state, Cahill said.

In Albany's own version of Groundhog Day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders are still keeping open the possibility of a special session before the year ends that could include legalizing ride - sharing services statewide and a pay raise for lawmakers.

One of the potential items would allow ride - sharing services outside of New York City.

Despite the mutual State of the State boycott between Cuomo and state lawmakers, they will all have to work together eventually on issues like passing the budget, which is expected to have a deficit, and perhaps implementing new laws — to make college tuition free for more students, and allowing ride - sharing services like Uber and Lyft in more places in New York.

A speedy passage of Erie County's budget for next year temporarily stalled Tuesday over $ 100,000 to help Visit Buffalo Niagara's efforts to legalize use of ride - sharing services, like Uber and Lyft, Upstate.

That means that details remain elusive on the status of, among other things, expanding ride - hailing outside of New York City, offering free tuition to SUNY and CUNY schools for middle - class students, and requiring local governments to come up with shared services plans.