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Fast Company Jessica Hullinger	GM Partners With Lyft To Build A Network Of Self-Driving Cars Lyft, the ride-hailing startup, announced today that it is partnering with General Motors to create a network of on-demand self-driving cars.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Google's Self-Driving Cars Coming to Mountain View Roads This Summer Google announced today that they will begin formally testing self-driving cars on Mountain View's streets, where the tech giant is headquartered, as part of its efforts to ready the vehicles for the road.
Fast Company Sarah Kessler	A Consulting Firm Hired By Uber Found That Its Drivers Are Very Happy Uber's survey seems to paint a selective picture of its drivers. Which is exactly what it's designed to do.
Fast Company Rebecca Greenfield	UN Women Says It Has No Plans To Collaborate With Uber On Job Creation (Updated) Just 10 days after Uber announced a global program to get more women drivers, UN Women has backed away from its highly publicized partnership to create 1 million jobs for women.
Fast Company Sarah Kessler	Uber Is Now Facing A Much Bigger Lawsuit A U.S. district judge granted Uber drivers class-action status in a lawsuit that claims they were incorrectly categorized as contract workers -- which may now apply to tens of thousands of drivers in California.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Self-Driving Cars Successfully Avoid Collision Autonomous cars just hit a new milestone: successfully avoiding an accident involving two self-driving cars from two different companies.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Baidu And BMW Plan To Launch Self-Driving Car This Year Chinese tech-giant Baidu wants to beat Google to the market for a self-driving car.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Uber To Lease Cars Directly To UberX Drivers The next natural step for the company, announced Wednesday, is to reduce the barrier to entry for prospective Uber drivers by rejiggering its leasing program.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Another Google Self-Driving Car Involved In Minor Accident, This Time With Injuries This was the first time a crash involving a Google car resulted in injuries.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Uber Driver Is Employee, California Regulators Rule [Updated] The California Labor Commission has ruled that former San Francisco-based Uber driver Barbara Ann Berwick was, in fact, an employee of Uber, not an independent contractor.
Fast Company Chris Gayomali	This Is How Google's Driverless Cars Navigate Tricky Roadblocks In a new blog post, Google shows us how its smart cars assess and navigate some of the trickier traffic scenarios, like, say, a road construction bottleneck near its Mountain View campus.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	Self-Driving Cars Will Be The Biggest Auto Safety Innovation Ever Like so many things in life, the future of driving is automated. In fact, autonomous vehicles could reduce traffic accidents by 90%, according to a new report from McKinsey.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Uber Mistakenly Exposed The Personal Data Of Hundreds Of Drivers The ride-hailing company accidentally released the personal information of hundreds of its drivers, allegedly leaking social security numbers, scans of drivers' licenses, taxi certification forms, and other private data.
Fast Company June 2014 Om Malik	Uber Is the New Google Google may be more than 15 years old and a search-and-advertising behemoth, and Uber may be a five-year-old startup remaking urban transportation. But they think the same.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Uber Debuts A Commuter Service In China [Updated] Now that China's leading ride-hailing company, Didi Kuaidi, has forged a partnership with Lyft, Uber is facing pressure to step up its game in the region.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Lyft Teams Up With Hertz And Shell Lyft, the perennial Avis to Uber's Hertz, is introducing a number of perks for its team of drivers.
Fast Company Michael Grothaus	Obama Administration To Announce Self-Driving Car Initiative Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will be in Detroit on Thursday to discuss the administration's initiative to get autonomous vehicles on the road faster in part by laying down a legal framework and guidelines that governs their use.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	The Teamsters Of The 21st Century: How Uber, Lyft, And Facebook Drivers Are Organizing When you think of the Teamsters, you might still think Jimmy Hoffa. But you should also now think Uber, Lyft, and even Facebook.
Fast Company Michael Grothaus	Uber Will Pay $7.6 Million Fine For Failing To Share Data Uber has agreed to pay the state of California $7.6 million for failing to share enough data about the trips users have taken using the service
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Why The Insurance Industry Is Taking Aim At Uber and Lyft Two bills are now up for approval in California (where both companies are based) that could force an overhaul in their insurance models -- and result in higher fares for customers.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Uber's New Feature Makes Commuting Home A Little Sweeter For Drivers Uber drivers in the Bay Area now have access to a feature that lets them pick up only riders who wish to travel in the same general direction they are headed.
PC Magazine October 9, 2010 Mark Hachman	Google Developing a Self-Driving Car, And It Works Google is developing - and has extensively tested - technology to build an autonomously self-driving car, Google said on Saturday.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	Uber Has A Security Problem And This Facebook Vet Wants To Fix It Uber knows it has a security problem and is apparently very serious about addressing it. Today, they hired longtime Facebook security chief Joe Sullivan away from the social networking giant.
Fast Company October 2015 Max Chafkin	What Makes Uber Run Travis Kalanick, the head of Uber, has been presented in an almost cartoonish light, coming off as either a Randian Superman, a Snidely Whiplash -- style mustache-twirling villain, or both.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Uber Will Now Deliver Xiaomi Smartphones To Your Door Xiaomi, a Chinese phone giant looking to boost its profile in global markets, is attempting the mother of all publicity stunts: delivering phones to customers by Uber.
Fast Company David Lumb	Uber Set To Pilot Same-Day Delivery Service For Retailers Uber is planning to harness its fleet of drivers and UberRush couriers for same-day delivery of merchant goods bought online.
Fast Company Alice Truong	"Shave The Stache": Lyft And Uber Turn To Mobile Billboards To Recruit Drivers As Lyft and Uber scale their e-hailing operations, they're focusing much of their efforts on recruitment -- or, more accurately, poaching.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Uber Fined $7.3 Million By California Regulators, Risks Suspension A California government agency has hit Uber with a $7.3 million fine for withholding information from regulators, the Associated Press reports.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Uber Relaxes Screening Requirements For California Drivers The company is intentionally easing up on its screening requirements, to give nonviolent criminals a chance to become Uber drivers.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Report: Uber Deems China Its "Number One Priority" Since making its way to China last year, Uber has grown exponentially in cities like Hangzhou and Chengdu.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Uber Updates Privacy Policies Ridesharing giant Uber has just revised its privacy policy to track riders' locations even when the app is not being used, and to send promotional discounts to friends and family members.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Uber Protest in Paris: French Cabbies Blockade Roads, Assault Drivers 2,800 cabbies are rallying nationwide in response to the ride-hailing app's continued operation in France.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Report: Cabbies Are Getting Nicer -- And We Have Uber To Thank Research from the Technology Policy Institute supports the theory that taxi drivers are becoming nicer -- and attributes it to the rise of the ride-hailing startup Uber.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Uber's Background Checks Missed Murder And DUI Convictions, Prosecutors Say A recent amendment to a lawsuit filed against Uber last year indicates that the ride-hailing app's screening process for prospective drivers is far from foolproof.
Fast Company Mark Sullivan	Uber Agrees To Encrypt All User Geodata To Close "God View" Investigation Uber has reached a settlement with the New York state attorney general requiring it to encrypt riders' geolocation information and implement other rider privacy protections.
The Motley Fool October 10, 2010 Anil Das	Google Tests Driverless Cars The company's blog says the project could make roads safer and free up commuting time.
Fast Company Rose Pastore	As Uber Seeks Another $2 Billion, Its Rivals Form Alliance Competing ride-hailing apps Lyft, Didi Kuaidi, Ola, and GrabTaxi have formed a global alliance to share technology and strategy in order the take on Uber.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Uber Managers In France Arrested Uber France CEO Thibaud Simphal and Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, the general manager of Uber's Western Europe division, were charged for "illegal taxi operations" and for "concealing digital documents."
HBS Working Knowledge August 17, 2015 Michael Blanding	Who Is Boss In The Sharing Economy? The recent controversy over whether Uber drivers are employees or independent contractors ignores the obvious: The answer is somewhere in between, says Andrei Hagiu.
Fast Company Alice Truong	Uber Will Let Customers Know When Surge Pricing Has Ended Uber has taken plenty of heat for its surge-price policy during busy hours, but the e-hailing startup tried to assuage this backlash Monday by announcing a feature that will let customers know when surge pricing has ended.
Fast Company Daniel Terdiman	Uber Plans IPO, Could Go Public Within 18 Months The San Francisco-based ride-sharing giant is expected to book nearly $11 billion in business this year and could file for an initial public offering in 18 to 24 months.
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Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	An Uber Competitor Is Coming To New York's Taxi Fleet Creative Mobile Technologies, which provides the ubiquitous credit card readers and Taxi TV monitors to half of New York's cabs, has inked a partnership with Arro to hail yellow and green cabs via smartphone.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Toyota Launching $1 Billion AI Lab . . . And It's Not Just For Cars The Toyota Research Institute will focus on building artificial intelligence products for automobiles and the home.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Uber's Big Round Of Chinese Funding Could Signal IPO Uber has just secured a round of funding from Chinese investment management firm Hillhouse Capital Group, according to the Wall Street Journal.
CIO May 28, 2015 Martha Heller	How the car industry is becoming an information business How do you drive change through a company that has legacy business processes? This is where information is very powerful.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Google Hit With Worker Lawsuit A week after Amazon's delivery workers brought charges against the company, Google is facing a similar class action lawsuit filed by a driver for its same-day delivery service, Google Express.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	What The Leaked Uber Documents Don't Tell Us What appear to be leaked internal Uber documents posted on Gawker indicate the transportation company lost significant amounts of money in recent years.
The Motley Fool August 15, 2007 Jack Uldrich	Planes, Trains, Automobiles ... and Robots? Don't dismiss the significance of the emerging robotics industry. Robotics may grow as suddenly and dramatically as previous technologies; the trick for investors will be to determine which companies will be supplying these robots.