Sentences with phrase «ride service app»

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.

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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.

It's worth mentioning that this all follows shortly after the news that Google is also testing its own ride - sharing service through its Waze app, a la Uber.

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).

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.

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.

Didi Kuaidi is also a strategic partner — the two companies teamed up with India's Ola and Southeast Asia's GrabTaxi to let their respective customers book and pay for rides through each other's services when traveling abroad without having to download separate apps.

A few weeks ago Didi discontinued its US app service and now encourages users to book rides with Uber's domestic nemesis, Lyft.

The ride - hailing app, in partnership with autonomous driving technology company Aptiv, plans to offer «fully automated point - to - point ride - hailing» services at the show.

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.

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

Turning its Moovel app into a one - stop shop where users can access many different transportation options — including the popular ride - hailing and public transportation services they already use — is a clever way for Daimler to wedge itself into the future of urban mobility.

In order to gain mainstream adoption for their mobility services, automakers will need to offer apps that differentiate themselves from ride - hailing apps and entice people to download and use them.

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.

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.

The technology uses data collected from the ride - hailing app to track and circumvent users who violate Uber's terms of service, including competitors and government sting operations.

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.

Broward County commissioners on Tuesday passed a sweeping new law regulating app - based ride services such as Uber, despite the company's threat to leave town if they did.

Other technology firms that made it to the list are Nvidia at no. 28, which produces chips for futuristic technologies such as deep learning and driverless cars, Facebook at no. 29 for investing in Messenger and for hosting news articles on its platform, Japanese messaging app maker Line at no. 37, Coinbase at no. 40 for enabling Bitcoin payments in PayPal and Expedia, IBM at no. 46 for its work with Watson, Snapchat at no. 47 for its innovative new format, and Uber at no. 50 for its ride - sharing services and driver deliveries.

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.

Uber, which has recently been involved in a storm of controversy, was reported to have already been in trouble two years ago when Apple CEO Tim Cook threated to remove the ride - hailing service's app from the App Stoapp from the App StoApp Store.

Additionally, you could find yourself having to laboriously create new accounts for any number of apps that you've been logging in to all this time using Facebook — anything from Spotify to Airbnb to Patreon, ride - hailing services, online retailers, and more.

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.

Uber's iPhone app has a secret back door to powerful Apple features, allowing the ride - hailing service to potentially record a user's screen and access other personal information without their knowledge.

Uber is partnering with the NFL Players Association to produce a special service for NFL players to use the app to call for rides and avoid driving under the influence.

Uber is rolling out an upgrade to its app and it has nothing to do with its ride - hailing service.

In September, Lyft teamed with Didi Kuaidi, the Chinese ride - hailing behemoth, to provide service to Chinese Didi Kuaidi app users who enter the United States.

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.

This included allowing organizations to securely disburse bulk cash through the SurePay Service, helping rural residents pay for clean water and electricity, launching the ride - hailing app Little and the music streaming service Songa, besides integrating M - Pesa into the Google PlayService, helping rural residents pay for clean water and electricity, launching the ride - hailing app Little and the music streaming service Songa, besides integrating M - Pesa into the Google Playservice Songa, besides integrating M - Pesa into the Google Play store.

You can drive for a ride share service, use an app to walk dogs or sell stuff on line.

The settlement, announced on April 21, allows the ride - hailing service to continue treating drivers in California and Massachusetts as independent contractors, while creating new safeguards against cutting them off from the Uber app without warning and allowing them to form drivers» associations.

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.

A report released last week revealed that ride - sharing apps like Lyft and Uber were largely responsible for the increase in traffic congestion in the city in the last few years, and Cuomo's plan will consider adding a surcharge on these services, funds from which will directly go toward subway improvements.

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.

Taxi drivers demonstrated against a measure that would expand phone app based ride services like Uber and Lyft to Long Island and Upstate, chanting «Uber, shame on you».

Assembly Democrats are backing a plan that would add a $ 1 fee on each ride by app - based car services statewide.

Taxi drivers demonstrated against a measure that would expand app - based ride services, like Uber and Lyft, to Long Island and Upstate, chanting «Uber, shame on you.»

Ride - hailing Uber app on Monday is releasing a new web ad that urges the expansion of its service outside of New York City.

Cuomo called ride - hailing apps a «great service» that saves fuel and vosts.

The ride - share app Uber formally launched an effort on Tuesday to bring its service outside of New York City, an expansion push that comes after the company successfully beat back an effort that some saw as limiting its growth in the five boroughs.

The ride - share company Uber on Monday announced it had expanded its roster of upstate mayors supportive of allowing the app and similar services to operate outside of New York City

Uber, by far the largest company that provides for ride services through an app, has faced a series of high - profile setbacks at its corporate level that culminated this month with the resignation of its founder and CEO.

A provision included in the state budget permitted the two ride - hailing apps to begin service in cities like Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse as well as all of Long Island — but not until July 9.

Richard Milne, with the New York Conference of Mayors, and mayor of the small village of Honeoye Falls, says most small cities, villages and towns don't have the resources to set individual rules for the app based ride sharing services.

The New York Senate voted 60 - 0 Wednesday to allow the two ride - hailing apps to begin service in cities like Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany on June 29, 10 days earlier than they can start under an existing law passed earlier this year.

Republican Brian Kolb says he hopes the Assembly will quickly consider legislation that will permit ride - hailing apps to begin services north...

ALBANY — 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 app - based ride - hailing service today is releasing a survey it commissioned which found broad support for its plans to operate outside of New York City.

The Thruway Authority launched a free app that features an interactive map that tracks your position on the 570 - mile superhighway and provides traffic alerts, links to traffic cameras, and the location of exits, park - and - ride lots and service areas.