The hostility towards Uber drivers is nothing new. Just last week,Uber banned its UberPOPservice in France following violent protests in Paris and across the country that left a few cars overturned, windows smashed, and both drivers and passengers rather shaken. The general consensus is that Uber...
Uber serves hundreds of cities in dozens of countries, including the U.S. and Canada, as well as other cities around the globe in Central and South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the EU. Depending on your location, Uber may be your only taxi alternative option. In t...
And this issue not limited to the US only, Uber is facing the same issue in South Africa. The South African government initiated seizing the uber cars because the driver didn’t hold a taxi permit. Another discussion were the wage laws in this industry, and whether Uber was adhering by ...
The article offers the insights of Anthony le Roux, general manager (GM) at ride-sharing service Uber Technologies Inc. in Cape Town, South Africa, regarding the sharing economy and driverless cars. Topics discussed include the goal of the company to bring the service in ...
New Uber competitors are continuously being launched, for example, inDriver in South Africa. Traditional taxi services protest for governments to regulate pricing because they can’t compete with Uber’s rate. In Germany, Uber was taken to court by the local taxi industry for violating competition...
While Musk announced plans to put self-driving cars on the roads of California and Texas next year, Gawrelski warned that until there’s material evidence of those debuts, Tesla’s threat of disrupting the rideshare industry will remain abstract. “Putting an actual date and a city on those ...
In Africa, Uber is also available in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town in South Africa, Lagos in Nigeria and Cairo, Egypt. TheKenyan taxidrivers claim that they are unable to compete with Uber Kenya which has lower rates. Yet Uber drivers drive and own their cars. The company shares earni...
“I used to use Didi most of the time, but I switched to Uber because it was cheaper,” said Xu Desheng, a 32-year-old living in Beijing, who says he has become a daily Uber user because of the prices. While Uber’s services include luxury cars, cheaper rides are a bulwark of ...
Besides Easy Taxi, the services 99, which scored an investment from Didi, and Cabify also compete in South America. Easy Taxi calls itself the most downloaded taxi app in the world—because it uses actual taxis, not drivers' own cars. Also part of the 2012 crop of Uber competitors, ...
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