Uber is rolling out a new feature to its mobile app that can be quite helpful but also somewhat creepy: it will now let you track friends and family in real time as they’re taking Uber rides.
There’s no need to tip.Uber has been saying it for years. And the car-hailing app was embraced, in part, because of it. It’s all-inclusive and cashless; one fare and one email receipt, automatically charged to your credit card after rolling up to your destination.
The transportation war has become increasingly brutal in China, with Uber playing catch up since its launch in 2013.The San Francisco-based taxi-hailing company is burning $1 billion to compete against its number one rival DidiChuxing (formerly DidiKuaidi).To put that value into perspective, $1 billion is approximately how much Uber earned per year in its top 30 cities around the world.Didi, heavily armed with financing from local tech giants like Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd., is dominating the market. DidiChuxing raised about $2 billion in its latest round of funding, Bloomberg News reported.
General Motors and Lyft has just entered an accord that would allow the Detroit-based automotive giant to make use of the ride-sharing company’s network of independent drivers as a primary test market for its self-driving car program. Meanwhile, both Uber and Lyft promised to withdraw their business operations in Austin, Texas once Proposition 1 becomes law- a proposed ride-sharing legislation that requires fingerprinting to all their drivers.
Alphabet Inc.'s Google unit, Ford Motor Co., the ride-sharing service Uber and two other companies said in a statement, "it will work with lawmakers, regulators and the public to realize the safety and societal benefits of self-driving vehicles."
Uber agreed to pay at least $10 million to settle claims by California prosecutors that it deluded riders about the nature of its driver historical verification
Uber’s help desk has relocated from email communications to within the app. Many people in different parts of the world are not really sure about the working algorithm of e-mails including users from India and China. This has brought about a change.
Kalamazoo police officials dismissed the alleged $10 million lawsuit filed shooting suspect John Dalton against Uber as plain hoax. Dalton, on his part, denied ever doing it and handwriting on the filed complaint apparently did not match his.
Toyota Motor Corp. recently announced that it will be scrapping its youth-oriented Scion model and transition it to the mainstream Toyota brand this summer.
Uber has bought Microsoft's mapping tech to lessen reliance on Google Maps.
Courtney Love was allegedly attacked in her car by anti-Uber demonstrators in France.
Uber is tracking its drivers in China and it will fire anyone attending taxi protests, according to reports.
Uber's experimental self-driving car was spotted on the public roads of Pittsburgh, around its new institute at Carnegie Mellon University, the Center for Advanced Technologies (CAT).
Nokia is seeking buyers for its HERE maps division and reportedly Uber has submitted a bid for it for as much as $3 billion.
On March 28th, Jaime Hessel took an UberX ride from her East Williamsburg apartment to Midtown East, covering 6.79 miles in 35 minutes and 29 seconds, but Uber sent her a $12,251.49 bill.
