Rideshare services refer to companies or apps that allow people to share rides with others who are heading in the same direction, usually for a fee. It's like carpooling with strangers, but organized through a digital platform.
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Rewards credit cards have always offered bonuses and points for airline travel, and several have jumped on the popularity of
ridesharing services like Uber, reimbursing credits to frequent riders.
Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN)- State lawmakers gathered at Canalside Thursday morning to celebrate the much - heralded start of
ridesharing services in Buffalo and upstate New York.
78 % of all respondents to a survey agreed that friends are less likely to drive drunk since the arrival
of ridesharing services like Uber to their city.
With Gov. Chris Christie's signing of legislation outlining a regulatory framework
for ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft, New Jersey became the 36th state to legalize and...
With this week's passage of legislation in the New York Senate aimed at
allowing ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft to operate upstate — until now, state laws have limited...
Some highlights of the budget include a 45 cent increase in the cigarette tax, a 25 cent fee on
ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft, and a reduction of the state's earned income tax credit for low - income workers.
Given that some millennials strictly
use rideshare services such as Uber and Lyft, driving records may not yield much information either.
Uber and fellow
rideshare services Lyft and Sidecar were operating illegally at SFO until the airport and the companies struck a deal in October, allowing the startups to send their drivers there as long as the services paid the airport certain fees.
In a blog post announcing the impending suspension of its UberX service in Athens, the company writes: «New local regulations were voted on recently with provisions that
impact ridesharing services.
Partnerships
between ridesharing services and healthcare systems are becoming increasingly popular, as healthcare systems realize the benefits of offering non-emergency medical transportation to patients to reduce the number of missed appointments.
• Lyft, a San Francisco -
based ridesharing service, is seeking to raise at least $ 500 million in new funding at a valuation between $ 6 billion and $ 7 billion.
Home Care Assistance CEO Lily Sarafan says by having access to
ridesharing services through a landline, more seniors will be able to tap into the potentially transformative benefits of ride - hailing apps.
«We are thrilled to add Oakland to the growing list of airports that have
embraced ridesharing services like uberX as a safe, reliable transportation option,» Wayne Ting, Uber Bay Area General Manager, said in a statement.
While ridesharing services, such as Uber and Lyft, are available to New York City residents, Upstate New Yorkers have been left behind.
Lalor did praise a few items in the budget, including
bringing ridesharing services to upstate New York and $ 55 million toward increasing income for direct care workers.
Aside from ensuring safety while enjoying the nightlife,
rideshare services help reduce transportation costs while being mindful of deceasing the carbon footprint.
Mississippi and West Virginia have become the 30th and 31st states to pass legislation to create a statewide regulatory framework for
ridesharing services offered by transportation network companies...
«We
support ridesharing services like Uber which has the potential to create 13,000 jobs in one year and make our communities safer by reducing drunk driving incidents.»
If, for some reason, you've recently decided to stop using one or
more ridesharing services, but wish there were an easier way to call for a cab, you're in luck.
But controversy in the city over
whether ridesharing service drivers must be fingerprinted is pushing that possibility further into the future.
A driver with the San
Francisco ridesharing service Uber was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter for striking and killing a 6 - year - old girl in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood on New Year's Eve, police and company officials said Thursday.
Much has been made about the most well -
known ridesharing services, Uber and Lyft, and how they allow drivers to get paid for ferrying people around town.
Internet -
enabled ridesharing services such as Lyft, Uber and Sidecar are expanding rapidly in San Francisco, New York and other U.S. cities, billing themselves as a high - tech, low - cost alternative to cabs.
NerdWallet examined data from a variety of sources to compare the cost of commuting each week
via ridesharing service Uber vs. a personal vehicle in the 20 largest U.S. metropolitan areas by population, to see if owning a vehicle for work is cost - effective.
«The summer tourism season is just around the corner and the availability of
ridesharing services across the state will be a major plus offering economic, environmental and public safety benefits,» Seward said in a statement.
«Every day that Upstate New Yorkers don't have access to safe and
reliable ridesharing services is another day that they are being unfairly left behind New York City and the rest of the country,» said Uber NY's general manager, Josh Mohrer.
Anyone who has travelled to New York or any one of dozens of other cities in the United States is probably familiar with Uber or other so -
called ridesharing services.
Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN)- With
ridesharing services opening up shop across upstate New York and the Buffalo - Niagara region, local political and law enforcement leaders are hailing the service as a «game - changer» with respect o efforts to curb drinking and driving - related issues across the area.
In 2014, Uber conducted research to determine
if rideshare services were having any effect on drunk driving in Seattle.
Passengers are willing to pay the premiums to
utilize ridesharing services expecting safe and timely transportation, but when instead they are met with a traumatic car accident, they deserve to receive compensation for their suffering.
When rideshare services like Uber and Lyft began to take off, taxi drivers in markets across the country saw their pay swiftly decline as they lost market share.
Now, the once -
confident ridesharing service is in damage control mode, and is attempting to stem the flow of users deleting the app by reassuring them that they are acknowledging these problems.