From ValleyWag Continuing the string of safety incidents surrounding Uber, a driver was arrested in Los Angeles Monday for allegedly kidnapping a drunk female passenger after she woke up in a motel room and found her shirtless driver. A LAPD spokesperson tells ABC7 that the 26-year-old victim was drinking Sunday night and "had likely called [...]
From NBC Los Angeles A sure sign of success is when a company's name becomes a verb. Office workers frequently Xerox documents while others rush off to FedEx a package. And now, a lot of passengers say they will "Uber" their way to meet friends. The explosive growth of Uber can't be denied. In the [...]
From the Daily Beast One afternoon in late September, I opened the Uber app and requested a ride. For the unitiated, Uber is a hugely popular app that allows people to summon a private car with a few taps of their fingers. Since launching in 2009, the company has expanded to 34 countries, mainstreaming on-demand [...]
From NBC Chicago A former driver for the Uber rideshare service faces battery charges for allegedly fondling a passenger last month. Jigneshkumar Patel, 31, allegedly touched the woman’s legs and breast after picking her up about 1:40 p.m. March 8 in the 100 block of West Cermak Road, according to a Chicago Police report. The [...]
From the Chicago Tribune Chicago's new ride-sharing services market their drivers as friendly and safe, asserting they have passed stringent criminal background checks. But a Tribune investigation revealed that one of the companies, Uber, did not check some of the criminal records of its drivers, allowing thousands of drivers to ferry passengers for months, despite [...]
From Pando Last month, Pando reported that an Uber driver in San Francisco had been accused of verbally and physically assaulting a passenger, James Alva. According to Alva, the driver called him a "dirty Mexican faggot" and then struck him several times when Alva tried to take a photo of him and his license plate to [...]
From ValleyWag There are standards you have to meet before you can drive a pseudo-taxi, unregulated by the city: "As long as you are friendly and have a car and a clean record, you can drive on the Lyft platform," according to the site. If those standards seem low, it's because Lyft seems to want [...]
From the Washington Post At the same time D.C. police were announcing the arrest of an Uber limousine driver in the alleged rape of a 20-year-old customer, District prosecutors were saying they would not charge the man. The two agencies rarely air disputes over cases, but Thursday, they contradicted each other publicly at virtually the [...]