The Uber criticism reached a tipping point just before Thanksgiving, when BuzzFeed broke a one-two punch of news: first, that one of its top executives (who is still employed by the company) was flippantly describing plans to do opposition research on journalists critical of the company; second, that the company was regularly using its "God View" to track people on its riding network.
BlaBlaCar raised a massive $100 million round to create a global long distance ride sharing network.
Uber said today that it has expanded its system for conducting background checks on the drivers in its on-demand ride service network.
Green and Iagnemma noted that long-term, the companies hope to field "thousands" of Nutonomy vehicles on Lyft's ride hailing network.
Scoot, the San Francisco-based electric scooter ride share network, has teamed up with Nissan to create a four-wheeled two-seater enclosed vehicle onto the streets of San Francisco.
Ultimately, there's no reason for it to limit its partners on the autonomy software or hardware side, since it'll likely hope to open its ride hailing network to a range of partners instead of limiting itself and its profit potential.
Uber's Advanced Technology Group is simply deploying its self-driving trucks on the Uber Freight platform, in the same way that the autonomous team within Uber is using the Uber ride-hailing network to test and deploy its self-driving ride share vehicles.
As the CEO of Europe's number one ride-sharing network, people always ask me, "But how do you get into a car and share a ride with a complete stranger?" I always find this question a bit of a misnomer because, today, when you step into a car through carpooling.com, you already have a lot of information about that person with whom you will be sharing a car.
"The problem is, if someone builds this technology and puts it on a ride-sharing network, their cost competitiveness will be stronger than ours.
This profitable sideline has allowed Di Chung's ride-sharing network to continue to grow, amassing 30,000 members and counting, though Nam confesses that he has staked much of his own money to keep the vision alive.
