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Uber Kalamazoo Driver is dragged out of court after lunging at crying witness
The Michigan Uber driver accused of murdering six people was dragged out of court Friday after lunging at one of his surviving victims as she testified. Tiana Carruthers, who was shot four times as she shielded a group of children when Jason Dalton allegedly opened fire in Kalamazoo, wailed uncontrollably on the witness stand as Dalton was carried out. Carruthers struggled to keep her composure and was ultimately unable to answer the prosecutor's questions.
Selling Uber shares may be tougher than you think
SharesPost Inc., a broker of private technology stocks, approached investors with what seemed like an alluring offer: a potential investment in a fund that would hold Uber Technologies Inc. shares. In exchange for exposure to the high-flying ride-hailing startup, they were asked to part with at least $100,000 each and agree to hold the stake until the company goes public or gets acquired, with no vote in business decisions or visibility into its operations or finances.
Uber and Lyft have a powerful new enemy in Washington
Nine out of every 10 Americans may have no idea what the "gig economy" is, but Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren certainly does. And she doesn't like it one bit. In a speech at the annual conference of the New America think tank in Washington, D.C., Warren slammed ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft for undermining the economic safety net of worker protections built over the last century.
Watch: Passenger drives taxi home while Uber cabbie falls asleep at the wheel 
Ishaan Gill booked a taxi from South Delhi's Defense Colony to his residence. Little did he know the ride back home would be deeply etched in his memory. On his way home, Gill alleged the cabbie fell asleep behind the wheel and he had to drive the vehicle himself. He posted a 9-second video on his Facebook page, which shows the driver sleeping as Gill gently puts Rs 500 next to him. In what he explained as a "horrific experience", the driver fell asleep while driving and almost crashed into another vehicle.
Can Uber drivers skirt Houston licensing requirements?
Channel 2 Investigates discovered that Uber allows drivers to go online and pick up rides prior to obtaining appropriate City of Houston licensing. An undercover experiment demonstrated drivers are not blocked from operating within the city limits of Houston prior to meeting requirements set up in a 2014 ordinance. The TNC license includes getting a fire extinguisher and Uber window sticker, completing a physical and drug test, completing a warrant check and then taking all this information to a city-operated licensing center to get a permit.
Ride-hailing vote shows Austin may be weird, but it ain't stupid
Uber and Lyft spent $9.1 million to try to convince Austinites their drivers don't need to be fingerprinted and lost the election anyway. But this was always about more than inky fingers. This was about who's the real sheriff in town. This was about who runs Austin: the city of Austin and our City Council, whose members we elect, or the brass at Uber and Lyft, whom we don't.
SFPD, SFMTA confront rideshare drivers caught picking up fares that didn't call for service
Rogue rideshare drivers are taking advantage of unsuspecting passengers trying to hail a ride. The drivers are not supposed to pick them up. So on Wednesday night, KRON's Stanley Roberts goes in-depth to show us the unscrupulous drivers, who got caught with the wrong passenger. A sergeant for San Francisco police was overseeing a sting targeting rogue drivers picking up passengers illegally. Plain-clothed police officers are serving as decoys.
Dirty driving: Ride-hailing services worst culprits for germs, study says
You might want to think twice the next time you call for a taxi, Uber or Lyft - or at least bring along some sanitizer. A recent study suggests taxis, rental cars and ride-hailing vehicles are full of germs. Testers expected taxis to yield the highest amount of bacteria, as cleanliness seems to be the biggest complaint people have with taxis. But when lab results came back with counts for the number of colony-forming units (CFUs) and bacteria present, it was actually ride-hailed cars that turned out to be the germiest.
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