Uber Was In Hot Water With Apple After Tracking Users Who Deleted Its App
24 Apr 2017, 11:37 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / A recent report revealed that Apple has discovered that Uber was not respecting the rules of its App Store by tracking users who deleted the app. It stopped
Italian Court Blocks All Uber Services for the Entire Country, This Is A First
11 Apr 2017, 08:14 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / A Italian court has blocked all the services offered by Uber in the country after a lawsuit filed by traditional taxi companies. No other country has done this
Over 8,000 Uber and Lyft Drivers Fail Background Checks In Massachusetts
9 Apr 2017, 18:01 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / New background checks introduced in Massachusetts have taken about 8,200 Uber and Lyft drivers off the roads. They had passed the company's reviews
Ex-Google Autonomous Car Engineer Made Over $120 Million, Lawsuit Reveals
6 Apr 2017, 14:22 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / A lawsuit between Waymo and Uber has revealed the kind of income that can be accomplished by a talented engineer in the field of autonomous cars.
A Female-Friendly Uber Alternative Launches In Boston, Look For Safr
6 Apr 2017, 11:15 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / A start-up company launched a ride-hailing service named Safr in Boston. It comes as a female-friendly alternative to Uber, which has seen many scandals
According to New Study, GM and Ford Are Now Leaders of Automated Driving Tech
5 Apr 2017, 08:29 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / A recent report from Navigant Research has named Ford and General Motors as the leaders of automated driving technology. Uber and Baidu are just challengers
Lyft Settles California Lawsuit For $27 Million, Drivers Are Not Employees
18 Mar 2017, 14:18 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / A class action lawsuit filed by Lyft drivers in California was meant to get them to be considered company employees. It was settled for $27 Million
First Statistics Of Uber's Self-Driving Cars: One Human Intervention Per Mile
17 Mar 2017, 17:22 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Documents that monitored the activity of Uber's self-driving division were leaked. Fortunately, their conclusions have arrived on the internet, and we have them
Waymo Sues Uber Over LiDAR System, Former Employees To Blame
24 Feb 2017, 08:47 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Waymo, the self-driving car division of Alphabet, has filed a lawsuit against Uber. The company accuses Uber of stealing proprietary LiDAR technology
Waze Carpool Service Is Expanded To More Cities In USA And Latin America
23 Feb 2017, 13:51 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Waze, the navigation app owned by Google, tested a carpooling feature last year. You can now use it in multiple cities in the U.S. and Latin America
3,000 Ride-Sharing Cars Could Satisfy NYC's Need for Taxis, Free Traffic
3 Jan 2017, 18:33 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / An MIT study shows that a little over 20 percent of the current number of taxis in New York City could do the job if people were OK with sharing a ride
Uber Launches a Website Dedicated To Freight, Expect Autonomous Trucks
30 Dec 2016, 14:42 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Uber has launched the website of its self-driving truck start-up. It's called Otto, and they are hiring. Truck drivers are also wanted
Manhattan Uber Driver Claims to Have Caught 240 Straight Green Lights, Has Video
30 Dec 2016, 14:34 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Tell somebody you've driven through downtown New York without stopping for one red light in 27 minutes and they'll say you're crazy. Show them the video and...
Uber Has Literally Taken Its Toys from San Francisco and Moved Them to Arizona
23 Dec 2016, 18:39 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The conflict between California DMV and Uber has come to an end, with the latter closing shop and moving to Arizona where it can deploy its self-driving cars
Uber's Attempt at Bullying the DMV Has Failed, Autonomous Project Cancelled
22 Dec 2016, 12:31 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Uber though a personal take on the semantics in an official text would allow it to test self-driving cars (make that taxis) without a permit. Uber was wrong
Uber Customer Gets Surprise Charge of $28,000 by Mistake, Does Not Have To Pay
21 Dec 2016, 12:32 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / An Uber client from Philadelphia received a charge of $28,000 on their account. Fortunately, the bank blocked it, and Uber realized it suffered a glitch
Uber Knows Its AI Cars Have a Problem with Bike Lanes, Won't Stop the Project
20 Dec 2016, 16:30 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Uber is currently following in Tesla's footsteps and putting self-driving cars on the streets of San Francisco, despite a ban from local DMV
Uber's Self-Driving Service in California Lasted a Full Few Hours
15 Dec 2016, 13:11 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Uber tried to go around the Californian laws and launch a public self-driving service, but just hours after announcing the move, disaster struck
A Monk's Uber Trip To Holy Island Ends With Tide, Moses Unreachable
4 Nov 2016, 13:33 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / A Buddhist monk took an Uber to reach a Holy Island. There is only one access route on the road, and it is affected by tide. The car got stuck on a bridge
Tesla Network Won't Dig into People's Pockets, Allow Them to Keep Revenues
27 Oct 2016, 15:27 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Elon Musk talks about the Tesla Network, his vision of a fleet of privately-owned autonomous vehicles that work when their owners don't need them