Sentences with phrase «shared ride services»

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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.

Last month, Google unveiled its own ride - sharing service, Waze, in San Francisco, offering cheaper rates for carpools.

As car - sharing services continue to gain steam, we want to know how you prefer to get around when you need a ride.

Those new unicorns include companies such as French ride - sharing service BlaBlaCar, e-commerce player Jet.com, and the recently - embattled fantasy sports site DraftKings.

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.

The company distinguished itself by providing services the ride - sharing service doesn't.

Uber Pool was created as low - cost ride - sharing product, but it now also functions as a pseudo dating service for some people.

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

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.

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.

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.

The firm predicts 15 million U.S. adults will use ride - sharing services in 2016, and 17 million in 2017.

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

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».

The vehicle is self - driving, electric, and meant for a ride - sharing service.

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.

Ride - sharing services like Uber and Lyft want to ensure drivers will work for them and not their competitors.

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.

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.»

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.

Ride - sharing service Uber is another startup turning to its API for growth.

«Ride - sharing services have enormous potential for positive societal impact with respect to congestion, pollution and energy consumption,» Daniela Rus, the professor at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory who led the study, said in a press release.

As we've seen with Uber, which famously blinked when challenged by local ride - sharing service Didi Chuxing, Chinese competitors shouldn't be underestimated.

Attorney Neama Rahmani told Business Insider that Monday's accident will be «a huge setback» for companies that want to introduce autonomous vehicles for personal use or through ride - sharing services.

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

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.

This was the year ride - sharing services made major inroads, operating in nearly every major U.S. metropolitan area and internationally.

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.

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.

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

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.

This digitization is occurring at a faster rate in other industries, like the ride sharing economy, «free» internet services supported by advertising, and others.

Dining includes things like restaurants, bars, pubs, coffee shops, and more, while travel includes airfare, hotels, Airbnb, taxis, ride - share services like Uber and Lyft, subways, and more.

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.

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.

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.

They were essentially the first real ride - sharing service to appear since taxicabs.

The ride - sharing service pairs a rider and a driver headed in the same destination, and it costs less than the same service offered by Uber or Lyft.

Uber has teamed up with DigitalGlobe that will see the satellite imaging company supply high - resolution satellite images to the ride - sharing service.