New York City limits the number of Uber, Lyft and Via cars in the city

On Wednesday, Aug. 8, New York City Council voted to limit the number of licenses to use for driving rented cars. This put companies such as Uber, Lyft and Via at risk. These restrictions were the first in the metropolis and will last at least ...

How 24-year-old Estonian set up a billion-dollar company

Estonian aggregator Taxify with a capitalization of $ 1 billion pushes Uber in Europe and Africa. The general director and co-founder of the company, Markus Willig, is only 24 years old, the RBC edition writes. He founded the company five years ago and was originally going to make a taxi aggregator that would only work for ...

In Denver, Uber driver shot a passenger

In Denver on Friday morning, an Uber driver shot and killed a passenger, writes USA Today. The police confirmed that the driver worked for Uber, but could not confirm whether he was at work at the time of the shooting. The driver was 29-year-old Michael A Hancock. He is in…

In New York, one car crashed into a store as a result of an accident: there are wounded

The car crashed into a grocery store on the corner of Manhattan on Thursday night, May 10, injuring five people. Witnesses said on social media that a yellow taxi and a gray sedan collided on West 21st Street and Eighth Avenue. As a result of the impact, a gray car ...

The life of New York taxi drivers: debts and suicides

Fierce competition from Uber and Lift is nearly ruining the livelihoods of yellow cab drivers. Duck Shifter, a New York driver with 30 years of experience, came to the City Council. A few hours earlier on Facebook, he published a list of his problems: - he needs...

The guy after the party laid out $ 1600 for a trip to Uber

After a party near the West Virginia University campus, young man Kenny Bachman ordered Uber, but went not where he was supposed to spend the night that night, but to his home, which is 300 miles in Gloucester County, New Jersey, writes NJ.com . ...

Tourists in Miami have been charged more than $ 700 for a taxi ride.

A couple of tourists in Miami paid more than $ 700 for a taxi ride from the airport to the hotel. After standing in line at Miami International Airport (Florida) and getting into a taxi on September 13, 2017, Carol and Eugene Barrington ignored the license plate ...

Passenger paid $ 14 thousand for the 20 minute trip to Uber

Toronto resident Hisham Salama used the online taxi service Uber and paid C $ 18, or $ 500, for the 14 km ride. According to the New York Post, American Emily Kennard shared on Twitter a story about how Uber ...

Uber will serve passengers on Long Island for Thanksgiving Day

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and Uber have teamed up to fight drunk driving on Thanksgiving Eve by offering free rides. All Long Island residents and visitors can enter the promo code "SAFERIDELI" (Safer Ride LI) into the Uber app and get ...

An alternative to Uber and Lyft appeared in New York

The ridesharing application of Via is expanding its coverage map in New York, writes Time out. Previously, the Via app was only available to residents of Manhattan, but now the company will travel to all areas of Brooklyn, Manhattan and Long Island. In a few months the map ...

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