Sentences with phrase «on ride services»

The regulations would impose penalties on ride services using technology that is not registered with the city's hackney division, which oversees taxi services, starting with $ 100 fines.

The formal request specifically called out Uber's policy of telling riders to tip in cash on a ride service it advertises as «cashless.»

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The ruling did not shut down Uber «s self - driving car lab entirely, which would likely have been a major blow as the company is betting its current ride services network will eventually rely on self - driving cars.

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

You know the drill: Amazon for your groceries, Netflix for date night, Handy for that light bulb you just can't reach and even on - demand car services to care for the car you hardly ever drive because you ride - share everywhere.

Following reports that some New York City Uber staffers ordered rides from competing service Gett only to cancel them, Uber apologized on its official blog; in August, Lyft claimed that Uber employees across the U.S. ordered and canceled more than 5,000 Lyft rides over a 10 - month period.

Until now, it has always focused on the United States while Uber has expanded globally, often facing opposition from local ride - sharing services.

Although no - car households are becoming slightly more common, a 2016 Strategic Vision Study found that millennials would still rather own a car than rely on ride - hailing services.

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.

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.

Uber's elaborate plans to sabotage Lyft include aggressively recruiting Lyft's drivers and cancelling rides on the service to waste the drivers» time.

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.

Google will launch a ride - sharing service in San Francisco, an unnamed source told The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.

Ride - hailing service Uber inaugurated a support center in Brazil's biggest city on Tuesday with plans to invest 200 million reais ($ 62 million) and create 2,000 jobs, underscoring an aggressive growth strategy in Latin America's biggest nation.

Uber's latest investment in Brazil comes just weeks after Didi Chuxing, China's largest ride - hailing company, announced it was investing more than $ 100 million in Brazilian company 99, an on - demand taxi and ride sharing service.

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.

General Motors and new business partner Lyft are launching a short - term car rental program aimed at bringing on more drivers to the ride - hailing service.

He has famously said he missed the boat (or car) on the ride - sharing service Uber, but recently identified what he calls «the greatest startup ever.»

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.

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.

That idea might have been considered «science fiction» as recently as a decade ago, Felten said, but now Waymo is testing its driverless ride - hailing service on public roads in Arizona.

Now, your bottom line is riding on your ability to deliver excellent service while you are meaningfully engaging customers.

Customers became angered after the ride - hailing service did not shutdown service at New York's Kennedy International on Saturday, in solidarity with a work - stoppage called by a cab - driver group.

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.

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.

(Reuters)-- Ride - sharing service Lyft has hired investment bank Qatalyst Partners, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

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.

And on Memorial Day weekend last month the company offered a separate flight program called UberAIR from Boston to Nantucket — but it wasn't on - demand service like that which Uber is known for, as passengers couldn't book a ride on a specific jet.

«This program denies ride requests to fraudulent users who are violating our terms of service — whether that's people aiming to physically harm drivers, competitors looking to disrupt our operations, or opponents who collude with officials on secret «stings» meant to entrap drivers,» the company said.

After two days of interrupted ticketing service and free rides for passengers, the railway's station kiosks went back online on Sunday.

It gave workers better health care and car maintenance services depending on the number of rides they completed.

A New Jersey town on track for a record - breaking number of drunken driving cases has become the first U.S. municipality to partner with ride service app Uber to keep inebriated residents from getting behind the wheel.

The I - PACE will be incorporated into Waymo's on - demand ride - hailing service, scheduled to launch later in 2018 in Phoenix.

The vehicles do not operate on Uber's ride - hailing service.

The ride - sharing service has been offering a game called Code on the Road to its riders in certain geographic areas.

Ford (f) also announced its intention to make self - driving cars for commercial ride - sharing or on - demand taxi services by 2021, a target the automaker says it will reach by expanding its Silicon Valley research lab, as well as investing in or buying autonomous vehicle technology startups.

From early stage consumer infotainment features, to ride sharing and on - demand mobility services, to fully autonomous vehicles in the future, connectivity in the car has been the driving force behind recent automotive technology advancements.

Uber Technologies Chief Executive Travis Kalanick on Tuesday said it was time for him to «grow up» and get help after a video was published showing him getting into an argument with a driver for the ride service who complained about pay rates.

A lawyer for ride service Uber, which has been sued by drivers who contend they should be considered employees and are seeking class action status, said it would be preferable to have a trial just on the three drivers who filed the complaint in order to avoid setting a risky precedent.

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday denied ride service Uber's request to immediately appeal an order approving class certification in a lawsuit filed by drivers who wish to be deemed employees.

New on - demand services, from ride - hailing company Uber to home - delivery service Instacart, all rely on armies of workers to run errands, park cars and handle other jobs.

The ride - sharing service is built on easy self - service via mobile, anticipates users» needs with always - available rides and meets consumers where they're engaged.

Speaking of autonomous cars and all that, the cost of owning a car and using it for commuting will exceed the cost of relying solely on ride hailing services within 10 years, at least in Seattle and Denver, according to a study by insurance startup QuoteWizard.

If a consumer is using a transit app on the watch to monitor delays, for example, an advertiser could insert a marketing offer that would light up on the watch face for a ride - sharing service or a deal at a coffee shop nearby, Kumar said.

Internet service would ride on high band spectrum, in the 3.5 GHz range, which has the capacity to carry much larger amounts of data than lower band channels, but does not travel as far or penetrate buildings as deeply.

But the idea of the service is you get into a car, you take the ride, you get out of the car, and it's done,» Kutcher, whose new Netflix comedy «The Ranch» premieres on Friday, said.

Lyft has expanded its on - demand ride - hailing service to 54 new U.S. cities Thursday as it tries to push deeper into the Midwest, East, and Southern states and take market share away from rival Uber.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- A lawsuit filed by drivers against ride service Uber should not proceed as a class action, the company argued in a court filing on Thursday, citing written statements of support from hundreds of other Uber drivers in a case that could decide whether they are independent contractors or employees.

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.

Sidecar officially announced that it is shutting down its ride - sharing and delivery service on Dec. 31, preparing to start fresh with new endeavors in 2016.