Sentences with phrase «run driver ran»

A hit - and - run driver ran into a Philadelphia mother and her two - year - old son while the two were their way home in South Philly.

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Under Kalanick, Uber had run roughshod over regulators, faced accusations of rampant sexual harassment, and allegedly obtained medical records of a woman in who said an Uber driver in India had raped her (Uber recently settled a U.S. lawsuit that the woman had filed against the company).

In addition to making your fleet run more efficiently, a fleet tracking system can improve fleet and driver safety.

Recently, Michael Pehl of i - Cube, an IT - consulting - services company in Cambridge, Mass., began running a series of large billboards in the Boston area, including one targeting drivers exiting from Logan Airport that immodestly touts i - Cube as «An Incredible Place to Work.»

These sessions ran in conjunction with others focused on the true reason Sage exists and the driver of their technology improvements - their customers.

Transport for London (TfL) shocked the Silicon Valley firm last month by deeming it unfit to run a taxi service and refusing to renew its license, citing its approach to reporting serious criminal offenses and background checks on drivers.

I clung to the shotgun seat while a self - driving Audi TT - S took corners far faster than most human drivers would dare, and Stanford professor Chris Gerdes, who runs the Stanford Dynamic Design Lab, sat at the wheel.

And then the driver picked up the food, zoomed toward the customer's house and ran into a problem no algorithm can solve: The addresses on some older houses are small and often hidden in shadows.

The company's self - driving units have been in test runs in the area for a while now, but always with a backup driver.

The Austin government is actively helping these new entrants, including by hosting a job fair and running a hotline to connect former Uber and Lyft drivers with new operators.

It allows drivers to «give carpool rides during their own commutes or while running errands.»

Last month, Uber's local marketing team in Lyon, France ran a promotion for a partnership with French website Avions de Chasse, in which Uber users could book cars with attractive female drivers.

Noting that the San Francisco ride - sharing startup lost somewhere north of $ 1.2 billion in the first half of 2016, Bloomberg's Justin Fox says that's a problem not because Uber's in danger of running out of money — it has raised around $ 15 billion — but because it spent that money without getting anything concrete in return, on ephemeral stuff like incentives to attract new drivers.

Indianapolis Fruit truck drivers used to leave their trucks running while they unloaded their produce shipments at grocery stores and warehouses.

Starting in 2005, GoDaddy ran a series of racy Super Bowl commercials featuring women such as race car driver Danica Patrick and supermodel Bar Rafaeli — usually in some state of undress.

The company told The Guardian that it has been running this experiment in Texas since late 2015, and that it plans to run more experiments to monitor driver and passenger behavior.

If a truck is running behind schedule, the company can more quickly adjust routes, shift drivers or call customers to reschedule deliveries.

However, Bloomberg reported that it's also looking into another crash earlier this year where a Model S ran into a fire truck parked on the highway, where the driver claimed Autopilot was engaged at the time.

In 2003, while running the chain's Michigan operations, he responded to growing competition with better coffee, along with precision milk and sugar dispensers for staff, which meant drivers no longer had to wrestle with sugar packets and creamers in their cars.

But for Cramer, the biggest positive driver for Axon wasn't the stock's 82 percent run since Smith's «Mad Money» interview or its burgeoning software business or its management's wildly positive future guidance.

Uber had faced a long string of serious setbacks: A self - driving car that ran a red light, a lawsuit for allegedly stealing the information to create that self - driving car, a scandal about software designed to deceive law enforcement in cities where the company was operating illegally, and video of Kalanick cursing out a driver.

Papathanasiou pointed out that, if an officer asked to run such a test during a traffic stop, the driver could hold on to his or her phone while it was plugged in to the textalyzer - equipped device.

In 2006, Mycoskie, a serial entrepreneur who was running an online driver's - ed business, travels to Argentina for a little polo, a little tango, and a little vino.

Regulator Transport for London last Friday deemed Uber unfit to run a taxi service and decided not to renew its license to operate when it expires on Sept. 30, citing the firm's approach to reporting serious criminal offenses and background checks on drivers.

I don't have a lot of time to run around searching for Mac drivers.

Dedicated rail routes typically run from suburbs to downtown cores and should leave more room on the asphalt for remaining drivers.

Today, he runs all of Lyft's New York City operations, working on everything from local promotions to driver growth to building up Lyft's team in its Long Island City, Queens, offices.

World Gold Council's Chief Market Strategist, John Reade, said in his 2018 outlook for gold that, «Over the long run, income growth has been the most important driver of gold demand.

Uber hosted a «jobs event» for prospective and current drivers to showcase how many New York residents» jobs would be cut if the vehicle cut were to take effect, and also ran TV ads, bought banner ads on websites, sent out direct mailers to constituents of City Council members who are proponents of the proposed legislation, and even reportedly tried to persuade the Rev. Al Sharpton to oppose the for - hire - vehicle cap.

Initially, I could run the entire business alone if need - be, but I would certainly like to hire - on at least one or two more drivers.

Over the past few months, I've tested ad copy that instilled each of these four emotional drivers across various sectors and industries — really running the gamut from medical practices to online clothing retailers to personal disability lawyers.

On Taobao, Alibaba's e-commerce site, vendors run a thriving black market for driver accounts, allowing purchasers to circumvent Uber's background checks.

Uber told the Guardian it is running or is planning several experiments designed to gain more influence over the behaviour of drivers and passengers in its vehicles, which are owned and operated by freelance contractors.

Shawn Carolan, Managing Director of Menlo Ventures and an early investor in Uber, took to Twitter to sing Kalanick's praises, saying he «has done a lot of good and created millions of opportunities for drivers with his talent and tireless devotion to Uber's mission: «make transportation as reliable as running water.»»

After Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot, the younger brother — who was low on ammunition — shifted to the driver's seat of the car from the passenger's seat, slammed it into reverse, ran over his brother, sped away and quickly abandoned the vehicle.

Under Uber's lease arrangements, drivers» leases can run far above the actual Blue Book value of the car, not unlike how homeowners were left underwater when housing prices plummeted and their mortgages far exceeded their homes» value.

Transport for London banned Uber for not running a «fit and proper» service after a U.K. court already had ordered the company to give its drivers proper workers» rights.

Quite interestingly, Norway Post press head John Eckhoff also mentioned the Tesla Semi's capabilities and features as a primary driver for the state - run firm's decision to purchase the electric vehicle.

Each ride an Uber driver accepts is a «gig» or a single job, as is each booking a Hassle cleaner makes to tidy a flat or every errand run through TaskRabbit.»

That was after Uber's commission but before on - the - job expenses like gas, insurance, and car maintenance that — by economists» best estimates — run about $ 3.50 per hour for part - time drivers, and $ 5 an hour for full - timers.

A gaffe about his opponent's race, allegations that he is the backseat driver from hell and, most recently, an indelible photograph of him in the middle of a wild party of teenagers — is Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler having the worst run...

Trade is a great driver of productivity, and so the risk of growing protectionism concerns me.15 More open trade with the United States and Mexico in the 1990s gave Canadian firms access to much bigger markets and therefore greater incentives to invest — in both physical and human capital.16 Disrupting supply chains and reducing incentives to compete will not create more jobs and income in the long run.

TechCrunch understands that Go - Jek, which is in the process of launching services in Vietnam, Singapore and the Philippines, is pouring its energies into recruiting Uber's former staff members and the platform's drivers in a bid to hit the ground running with its long - awaited regional expansion.

By focussing on the software and driver experience over the vehicle's physical performance, Breitfeld hopes to avoid repeating the same mistakes as Faraday Future — an electric car company that has run into financial difficulties after unveiling its FF91 vehicle at CES last year.

Editor's note: After Uber's chief economist, Jonathan Hall, publicly criticized the MIT study's findings for being based on «inconsistent logic,» its lead co-author acknowledged that the study's conclusions may be inaccurate and said he plans to run a new analysis to recalculate drivers» wages.

But taking drivers out of the equation would also increase the company's profits: Self - driving cars give Uber 100 percent of the fare, the company would no longer have to subsidize driver pay and the cars can run nearly 24 hours a day.

Hundreds of thousands of Manila commuters find Uber and its ride - sharing rivals welcome alternatives to the country's notoriously poor and overcrowded buses and trains, run - down taxis and rough cab drivers.

It observed that the U.S. is typically the key driver for products markets in the run - up to the summer driving season, and indicators are pointing to a positive and optimistic outlook.

In Colorado, the Department of Transportation worked with Otto for a number of months evaluating the company's technology and joining on test runs before agreeing to let an Otto semi roll along without a driver in the cab.

Road transport is also facing competition from rail, which is taking over more of the long - distance runs that are not popular with drivers, keeping them away from home for extended periods of time.