Oops... Uber Cars new competitor is: BMW!
BMW is sending up the industry’s latest trial balloon. And it’s headed straight for airspace currently occupied by Uber car and Lyft car. Starting today, the automaker’s ReachNow arm, which offers a car-sharing service in a handful of cities across the US, also has a ride-hailing service. If you happen to live in Seattle, you and your loved ones can still rent from a roving fleet of hundreds of BMW (including the electric i3) and MINI cars, scattered throughout the city. But
Uber Car Loans and Uber Lease to Own Programs
Uber Car, which lost $3 billion in the last Fiscal year and has gotten itself into a thicket of intractable issues and scandals that cost founder and CEO Travis Kalanick his job, and Has gotten Lyft Car a substantial share of Uber Cars Market. now Uber Car is facing a subprime auto-leasing crisis. Three years ago when Uber Car launched the subprime auto leasing program under the Uber Car company name xchange leasing they put their badly paid drivers into new vehicles they cou
Uber drivers now can share location with friends
Uber Car is rolling out a new tech tool to make the service safer for drivers, who can suffer from long and unpredictable hours on the road. Share My Trip, launched by Uber Car Monday, is the latest technological tweak aimed at meeting a range of requests that have stemmed from conversations with drivers. The feature, which rolls out in 140 of Uber’s more than 600 cities worldwide Monday, allows drivers to share their car’s location with loved ones either through the app or o
Uber drivers are exploiting the system to trigger higher-priced fares
Uber Car is having a bit of a rough year in terms of maintaining a positive image. Despite its troublesome CEO Travis Kalanick resigning back in June, rising ride costs and lawsuits have furthered the negative perception of Uber Car. If raised prices are a point of contention for you with Uber, you're not going to be fond of what comes next. In a study done by the University of Warwick, a team of researchers found that Uber drivers are making coordinated efforts to push the r
Forget something? Uber now charging customers to return lost items
Keys? Wallet? Phone? Those are among the top most commonly forgotten items in Ubers and Uber Car, according to The Uber Lost & Found Index. The next time you take an Uber Car, you may want to make sure you have all your belongings and don’t leave any behind, because now you’ll have to pay a price. Uber Car will soon be charging you $15 to return the items you left behind. Under the policy, a rider would enter a phone number they would want to be contacted at in the Uber app.
How to Improve Your Uber Passenger Rating, According to Drivers and Five-Star Customers
We’ve all had that Uber and Uber Car Leases driver. The lady that had you clinging for dear life as she barreled through your neighborhood at 75 mph. Or the dude who refuses to give up his collection of petrified French Fries preserved in the back seat where you're sitting. There are some heinous drivers out there, and their driver ratings usually reflect that. But passengers can be just as atrocious as the drivers they hire. And just as Uber Car Leases drivers have a rating,
Uber, Lyft Take Down Not Just Cab Drivers, but Also Lenders
NEW YORK (AP) - Ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Uber Car Leases and Lyft have been so disruptive to New York City’s taxi industry, they are causing lenders to fail. Three New York-based credit unions that specialized in loaning money against taxi cab medallions, the hard-to-get licenses that allow the city’s traditional cab fleet to operate, have been placed into conservatorship as the value of those medallions has plummeted. Just three years ago, cab owners and investors
Uber or Lyft - Where Can You Make More Money?
PHOENIX - A lot of people are choosing to pick up their keys and drive for a ride-sharing company to make a little extra money on the side. But which one should you choose: Uber or Lyft? Many drivers like to work for both, but a national study broke down the average wages and benefits for each company and revealed Uber may have a slight edge over Lyft. "Average trip will be like 10 to 20 bucks," said Lyft driver Dustin Jackson. Uber is available in more cities and Lyft offers
SF’s traffic planners weren’t expecting rise of Uber, Lyft
Hard to believe, but San Francisco’s transit wonks were caught completely off guard by the ride-hailing revolution that now floods the city with thousands of cars daily. Inside Uber's San Francisco Office In fact, when the city was drawing up its transportation “Major Strategic Plan” back in 2012, planners thought “ride shares” meant car pooling. So as the Municipal Transportation Agency drew up a blueprint for more bus- and bike-only lanes — and less space for cars — it was
What's next for Uber?
Travis Kalanick's "spectacular flameout is one for the ages," said Adam Lashinsky at Fortune. The CEO and co-founder of Uber and Uber Car Leases unexpectedly stepped down last month, after the ride-hailing giant's biggest investors confronted him with a list of demands that included his immediate resignation. In just eight years, Kalanick built Uber and Uber Car Leases into an industry-defining company worth nearly $70 billion, but his stubborn disregard for ordinary business
