Uber and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have reached an agreement to create a network of flying taxis around the world. Jeff Holden, Director of Operations at Uber, said the contract provides for the development of software to regulate ...
Checkers are the main difference between a regular car and a taxi. But it was not always so. The first taxi drivers were cabbies and draymen - passenger and cargo taxis from the past - and they did not draw any “checkers” on the sides of carts and cabs. But technical...
Four people were injured, some of them seriously, after a taxi drove onto the sidewalk in London. The incident, which took place in Southampton Street, Covent Garden, is not considered terror, police said. One person was sent to the main trauma center with a serious leg injury. ...
“Yulenka, here, here,” a thin man with a tight, white-toothed smile looks out of the half-open window of the car... “Wonderful... the driver is Russian,” he flashes through his thoughts, “again, I won’t be able to read the New Yorker.” “Good morning, Alexander,” I answer affably. Go. I started using Uber...
The city council is going to restrict Uber and Lyft to help the famous yellow taxis withstand the competition. Several dozen owners of yellow taxis came to the Council of the Transport Committee to complain that due to the operation of taxis through the Uber and Lyft apps, their cost ...
In Florida, Uber driver Chad Farley saved the life of a passenger who was about to commit suicide and jump from the Sunshine Skyway bridge. As Farley said, he took the 28-year-old passenger from his house and drew attention to the strange address where he was supposed to end ...
After Uber and Lyft left Austin, Texas, Boston-based startup Fasten, co-founded by entrepreneurs from the Krasnodar Territory, spoke about its desire to occupy the taxi niche here. In May 2016, Austin residents voted to tighten rules in ...
Airbus-owned startup Vahana posted a video showing a flying taxi it is developing. It all starts with calling the drone through an app on a smartphone, says Rosbalt. The client immediately sets the destination, after which the taxi automatically calculates the route taking into account air traffic. ...
The New York Attorney General's Office announced the arrest of Evgeniy Fridman, a native of the USSR and owner of the city's largest taxi fleet, who is accused of tax evasion and grand theft, writes Snob. The owner of Taxiclub Management is suspected of non-payment...
Jeff Jones, president of Uber, an online taxi-hailing service, left the company without even six months. Jones explained his departure from the company as a disappointment in the methods of Uber's management. “The methods and principles I have followed throughout my career are incompatible with what I saw and experienced at Uber,” Jones told Reuters ...