Sentences with phrase «with ride service»

Emily Castor, director of transportation policy at Lyft, said in an interview the company had «a pipeline of dozens of public transit agencies» that are discussing partnerships with the ride service.

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.

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.

TEMPE, Ariz. — The family of a woman killed by an Uber self - driving vehicle in Arizona has reached a settlement with the ride services company, ending a potential legal battle over the first fatality caused by an autonomous vehicle.

Not exact matches

While Uber has spent billions expanding overseas — it's currently available in 581 cities in 81 countries worldwide — Lyft has partnerships with international ride - hailing services but still has no presence of its own outside the United States.

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.

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).

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.

Trump says Amazon is getting a free ride from the US Postal Service, even though this is no more true than his claim that Canada has a trade surplus with the US.

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.

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.

Didi has also formed an alliance with Lyft in the United States, India's ride service Ola, and Southeast Asian startup Grab in an effort to compete with Uber's global dominance.

Uber said it had formed a partnership with Yandex, the Russian search giant and operator of the ride - hailing service Yandex.Taxi.

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.

And a recent legal challenge in Texas claims that the ride services are not equipped to deal with handicapped customers, and as a consequence they discriminate against such customers.

«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.

A magazine «ride - along» program piqued his interest: a mailing broker told Edelman of a private mail - delivery service that could couple his catalog in a polybag with, for example, Seventeen magazine.

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.

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

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.

(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 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.

Other companies are studying the economics of using automated driving systems to replace human drivers in taxi or ride - hailing services, including Uber Technologies (uber) and Lyft (lyft), which is collaborating with General Motors (gm).

It will also turn you into a zealous customer of companies like Uber and Airbnb, which provide you with what you want (rides, accommodations) at lower prices than the traditional service providers (cabs and hotels).

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

As automakers grow their mobility services, those services will come into more direct competition with those ride - hailing companies, which have millions of monthly active users.

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.

Wal - Mart Stores Inc. will partner with ride hailing services Uber and Lyft to trial online grocery deliveries, as it looks to speed up shipment times and better compete with rivals like Amazon.com Inc..

Gowalla teamed with partners like Palm and Chevrolet to turn some lucky users» acquired virtual goods into real world items and services, like a Palm Pre Plus and a Chevy ride from the airport.

Instead, they'll be put into service with ride - hailing companies like Uber Technologies and Lyft: They'll be automated taxis, limited (at least at first) to well - mapped cities.

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.

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.

Whether Ford will operate its own ride - hailing service or partner with another company is unclear.

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

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.

At San Francisco International Airport, police found even more issues, including two ride service drivers with no valid driver's license, nine with no car insurance, one ride service driver with expired registration, and one with expired car registration.

The regulations would also require any ride service not registered with the city — again, like Uber or its competitor Lyft — to charge a minimum of $ 50 per ride.

That simple question is often lost among the many controversies facing the ride - services company as it tries to hire a new chief executive and resolve a bitter dispute with the old one, Travis Kalanick.

Uber, on the other hand, has teamed up with a number of companies, which include United Airlines, Starbucks, Morgan Stanley and the National Football League in order to promote its ride - hailing service to as many mainstream consumers as possible.

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.

He had transformed the global transportation industry with Uber's ride - hailing service and pushed the company's value to nearly $ 70 billion, making it the most highly valued privately held start - up in the world.

Ride - and car - share services are becoming more popular with millennials, yet a new study finds the group is finally warming up to ownership.

MEXICO CITY / SAN FRANCISCO, April 6 Chinese ride - hailing company Didi Chuxing has publicly launched in Mexico with a website advertising its service to drivers and passengers and setting the stage for a potentially expensive showdown with rival Uber.

A driver with the ride - sharing service Lyft waits for a customer on a street in Santa Monica, California October 17, 2013.

Go - Jek is already looking to step into the void by expanding its Indonesia - based service into Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, but now a source tells TechCrunch that the ambitious startup has held early - stage talks with Comfort that could see it enter Singapore as ride - hailing partner for its 15,000 drivers.

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.