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At least 16 were injuried in a subway shooting in Brooklyn, NYC. Public transit disruption meant Uber turned on surges, charing 10x as much for rides.

Uber Criticized for Charging Surge Pricing for Riders Escaping Mass Shooting

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Uber is once again under fire for discrimination after allegedly punishing disabled riders with "wait-time" fees.

DOJ Sues Uber For Treating Disabled Riders Like “Second-Class Citizens”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Uber announced a deal with Hertz to make 50,000 Tesla vehicles available to rent to Uber drivers by 2023, an ambitious plan to electrify its fleet.

Uber Announces It Will Roll Out 50,000 Teslas to Its Drivers

By Victor Tangermann

Uber drivers report that the company was charging rather than paying them for some trips, causing some to quit the platform altogether.

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Uber Glitch Makes Drivers Pay for Their own Rides

By Dan Robitzski

Uber accidentally offered health insurance to some of its drivers then took two weeks to clarify that they're actually ineligible.

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Uber Offers Drivers Health Insurance, Then Says Oops Nevermind

By Dan Robitzski

Aibnb, Uber, Lyft, and other similar companies are becoming considerably more expensive as they attempt to stop burning through so much cash.

The Price of Ubers and Airbnbs Is About to Get Jacked Up

By Dan Robitzski

Thousands of New York City drivers just launched a worker-owned rideshare service meant to take the exploitation out of the gig economy.

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Thousands of New York Drivers Create Worker-Owned Version of Uber

By Dan Robitzski

A UK woman had the ride-sharing horror story of the year after her Uber drove into a canal — and still charged her for the ride.

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Uber Drives Passenger Into Canal, Still Charges for Ride

By Tony Ho Tran

The anti-masker woman who assaulted her Uber driver in that horrifying viral video turned herself in to the police and faces up to 20 years in prison.

Woman Faces Years in Prison For Coughing on Uber Driver

By Dan Robitzski

Human "safety driver" Rafaela Vasquez was charged with one count of negligent homicide following a 2018 deadly car crash involving an Uber self-driving car.

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Uber’s “Safety Driver” During Deadly Self-Driving Car Crash Charged With Negligent Homicide

By Victor Tangermann

Uber drivers in the U.K. are suing the company for access to access to its logs on their performance, as well as info on how it's used.

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Uber Drivers Are Suing to Learn How the Company’s Algorithm Works

By Dan Robitzski

According to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, the company is seeing its business return as passengers leave their homes during "party hours."

Uber Says Rides During “Party Hours” Are Keeping it Afloat

By Dan Robitzski

Recent earning reports from companies like Lyft, Uber, and Airbnb show that the coronavirus pandemic is having a devastating effect on the sharing economy.

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The Coronavirus Is Killing the Gig Economy

By Victor Tangermann

According to Uber and Lyft drivers who had their accounts deactivated over drunk driving, passengers filed false accusations to score a refund.

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Uber Riders Are Accusing Drivers of Drunk Driving for Free Trips

By Dan Robitzski

Uber sent out a memo to drivers urging them, among other things, to stay home if they feel sick. But because drivers aren't employees, it's not realistic.

Uber Tells Drivers to Stay Home If They Have the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

Over the last two years, almost 6,000 Uber passengers reported sexual assault. While the company has taken steps to stop it, it also downplays the problem.

Uber Gets Thousands of Sexual Assault Complaints per Year

By Dan Robitzski

An Uber office in Rhode Island had separate bathrooms for the company's drivers and its employees, a move Uber says it "regrets."

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Uber Admits It Didn’t Let Drivers Use Employee Bathrooms

By Kristin Houser

Once again, London is trying to get rid of Uber over passenger safety concerns. And once again, Uber is confident that it's not going anywhere,

Uber Just Got Kicked Out of London

By Dan Robitzski

Uber is trialing a new feature giving drivers and passengers the option of recording audio of their rides in a purported attempt to increase safety.

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Uber Is Going to Start Recording Audio During Rides

By Kristin Houser

According to a recent study, ride-hailing apps like Uber might have had something to do with an increase in binge drinking as people are able to drink more and get a ride home after

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Ride-Hailing Apps Linked to an Increase in Binge Drinking

By Victor Tangermann

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi compared his company's self-driving car killing someone to Saudi Arabia murdering a journalist, calling both simple mistakes.

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Uber CEO Compares Self-Driving Car Crash to Murdering Journalists

By Dan Robitzski

The self-driving Uber that struck and killed an Arizona woman in March 2018 wasn't programmed to know that people could jaywalk.

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Self-Driving Uber That Killed Woman Didn’t Know Jaywalkers Exist

By Kristin Houser

After a horrifying case where an unauthorized Uber driver raped his passenger, the company says its inroducing human oversight to its driver-verifying tech.

A Driver Tricked Uber’s Algorithm, Sexually Assaulted a Passenger

By Dan Robitzski

A new bill, just passed by California's state senate, makes Uber and Lyft contractors actual employees and eligible for benefits.

New California Law Makes Uber and Lyft Drivers Employees

By Victor Tangermann

Uber and Lyft funded a traffic study that showed that ride-hailing apps are responsible for a big chunk of traffic in major cities.

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Ride-Hailing Apps Make Traffic Worse — And Now They’re Admitting It

By Dan Robitzski

Uber exec Eric Meyhofer said that the company has "seen people bully [Uber's self-driving] cars," including aggressive behavior and shouted obscenities.

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Road-Raging Humans are Bullying Uber’s Self-Driving Cars

By Victor Tangermann

Uber is officially starting to make Uber Eats food deliveries by drone as part of a limited trial in San Diego this summer according to Bloomberg.

Uber Eats Will Start Making Drone Deliveries This Summer

By Victor Tangermann

In July, Uber will launch a new helicopter service to shuttle New Yorkers from downtown Manhattan and JFK airport in Queens.

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Uber Is Launching an On-Demand Helicopter Service

By Dan Robitzski

Uber is seemingly launching a unlimited food delivery service called Uber Eats Pass, based on app code uncovered by a software engineer.

Uber Is Preparing to Launch a Netflix-Like Food Delivery Service

By Kristin Houser

A new survey by AAA shows that most Americans distrust self-driving cars. In the past two years, public trust in the emerging technology has gone down.

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Just 19 Percent of Americans Trust Self-Driving Cars With Kids

By Dan Robitzski

Uber is not criminally liable for a March 2018 self-driving car death, say prosecutors, but the safety driver behind the wheel might still face charges.

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Prosecutors: Uber Isn’t Criminally Liable for Self-Driving Car Death

By Kristin Houser

An app called Join Papa lets senior citizens summon "on-demand grandkids," much like you'd order food on Seamless or a car on Uber.

Senior Citizens Are Using an App to Order “On-Demand Grandkids”

By Jon Christian

Chicago police claim data from Uber allowed them to crack their case against actor Jussie Smollett, whom they believe faked a hate crime against himself.

Police: Uber Data Helped Prove Jussie Smollett Faked Hate Crime

By Kristin Houser

Florida Law Would Allow Self-Driving Cars With No Safety Drivers

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Florida Law Would Allow Self-Driving Cars With No Safety Drivers

By Dan Robitzski

A 19-year-old teen from Austin tried to rob a bank and flee the scene of the crime on a Jump electric scooter. He didn't get far.

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Uber Snitched on Teen Who Used Its Scooter to Rob Bank

By Victor Tangermann

At a robotics event in Oakland over the weekend, Uber's Advanced Technologies Group announced it's hiring a team of "micromobility robotics" specialists.

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Uber Said to Be Developing Self-Steering Bikes and Scooters

By Victor Tangermann

Uber will begin testing its autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh on Thursday, marking the company's first tests since a fatal incident in March.

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Nine Months After Killing a Pedestrian, Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Are Back on the Road

By Dan Robitzski

An employee sent an email to Uber execs warning about issues with the company's autonomous cars days before a self-driving fatality.

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Whistleblower: Uber Could Have Prevented Self-Driving Fatality

By Kristin Houser

The Conversation reports that Uber is planning a "multibillion-dollar" acquisition of popular scooter-sharing company Bird.

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Uber Is Reportedly Planning a Takeover of Scooter-sharing Company Bird

By Victor Tangermann

Uber's AI lab just developed a reinforcement learning system that can learn from its mistakes. Now it can beat video games that always had AI stumped.

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Humans Teamed up With a New Kind of AI to Crush a Notoriously Difficult Video Game

By Dan Robitzski

According to Bloomberg, Waymo is about to announce the world's first commercial driverless car service in Phoenix, Arizona, putting them ahead of the curve.

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Yep, It’s Real: Your Next Rideshare Could Be Driverless in as Soon as a Month

By Victor Tangermann

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Uber Aims to Replace Delivery Drivers With Drones

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new report, Uber and Lyft are together responsible for half of new traffic congestion in San Francisco since 2010.

Uber and Lyft Caused Half of San Francisco’s New Traffic Congestion Since 2010

By Jon Christian

Ridesharing app Uber agreed to pay a whopping $148 million fine today for covering up a 2016 hack — and bribing the hackers not to release the data.

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Does Uber Have Any User Trust Left To Spare?

By Jon Christian

New York City Council Capped The Number Of Ubers Allowed On City Streets

New York City Council Capped The Number Of Ubers Allowed On City Streets

By Victor Tangermann

Uber just announced plans to shutter its self-driving truck division, at least temporarily, while it focuses on its self-driving cars.

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Uber Kills Self-Driving Truck Division, Clearing the Road for Tesla

By Kristin Houser

It’s Not Uber’s Fault That NYC’s Public Transportation Sucks

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It’s Not Uber’s Fault That NYC’s Public Transportation Sucks

By Dan Robitzski

The Digest: Uber Is Allowed to Operate in London Again, But It’s on Thin Ice

The Digest: Uber Is Allowed to Operate in London Again, But It’s on Thin Ice

By Kristin Houser

Too Drunk to Drive? You Might Also Be Too Drunk to Ride in an Uber

Too Drunk to Drive? You Might Also Be Too Drunk to Ride in an Uber

By Kristin Houser

Yes, Autonomous Cars Are Going To Kill People Before They Save Lives, Expert Says

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Yes, Autonomous Cars Are Going To Kill People Before They Save Lives, Expert Says

By Dan Robitzski

Uber Announces Flying Taxi Research Center In France

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Uber Announces Flying Taxi Research Center In France

Uber Gave Architects the Chance to Design Their Sci-Fi Flying Taxi ‘Skyports,’ and They Came Back With This

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Uber Gave Architects the Chance to Design Their Sci-Fi Flying Taxi ‘Skyports,’ and They Came Back With This

By Victor Tangermann

Uber Gives Us The First Glimpse Of What It Wants Its Flying Taxi To Look Like

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Uber Gives Us The First Glimpse Of What It Wants Its Flying Taxi To Look Like

By Victor Tangermann

Uber’s Self-Driving Car May Have “Decided” Not to Swerve To Prevent The Fatal Crash

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Uber’s Self-Driving Car May Have “Decided” Not to Swerve To Prevent The Fatal Crash

By Victor Tangermann

Uber Plans To Launch Flying Taxis With Technology That Doesn’t Exist

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Uber Plans To Launch Flying Taxis With Technology That Doesn’t Exist

By Dan Robitzski

The Future Of Sharing Means You’ll Never Have To Buy Anything Ever Again

The Future Of Sharing Means You’ll Never Have To Buy Anything Ever Again

By Victor Tangermann

Uber’s CEO Knows We Need Equality To Move The World Forward

Uber’s CEO Knows We Need Equality To Move The World Forward

By Alexandra Ossola

In Uber’s Vision of the Future, Every Form of Transport Is Fair Game

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In Uber’s Vision of the Future, Every Form of Transport Is Fair Game

By Claudia Geib

What’s More Dangerous Than a Human Driving a Car? A Bored Human Not Driving an AV.

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What’s More Dangerous Than a Human Driving a Car? A Bored Human Not Driving an AV.

By Kristin Houser

Tesla Model X in Autopilot Killed a Driver. Officials Aren’t Pleased With How Tesla Handled It.

Tesla Model X in Autopilot Killed a Driver. Officials Aren’t Pleased With How Tesla Handled It.

By Victor Tangermann

Uber Settles with Family of AV Crash Victim

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Uber Settles with Family of AV Crash Victim

By Kristin Houser

Waymo Plans to Deploy The Largest Fleet of Autonomous Vehicles by 2020

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Waymo Plans to Deploy The Largest Fleet of Autonomous Vehicles by 2020

By Victor Tangermann

Arizona Bans Uber’s Autonomous Vehicles Following Pedestrian Death

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Arizona Bans Uber’s Autonomous Vehicles Following Pedestrian Death

By Kristin Houser

Uber’s Self-Driving Car Just Killed a Pedestrian (updated)

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Uber’s Self-Driving Car Just Killed a Pedestrian (updated)

By Kristin Houser