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A vehicle for hire is a vehicle providing private transport or shared transport for a fee, in which passengers are generally free to choose their points or approximate points of origin and destination, unlike public transport, and in which the driver does not drive his or herself, as in car rental and carsharing. They may be offered via a ridesharing company.
Uber Technologies, Inc., commonly known as Uber, is an American company that offers vehicles for hire, food delivery, package delivery, couriers, freight transportation, and, through a partnership with Lime, electric bicycle and motorized scooter rental. The company is based in San Francisco and has operations in over 900 metropolitan areas worldwide. It is one of the largest providers in the gig economy and is also a pioneer in the development of self-driving cars.
Lyft, Inc. develops, markets, and operates a mobile app, offering vehicles for hire, motorized scooters, a bicycle-sharing system, and food delivery. The company is based in San Francisco, California and operates in 644 cities in the United States and 12 cities in Canada.
Shared transport or shared mobility is a term for describing a demand-driven vehicle-sharing arrangement, in which travelers share a vehicle either simultaneously as a group or over time as rental, and in the process share the cost of the journey, thereby creating a hybrid between private vehicle use and mass or public transport. It is a transportation strategy that allows users to access transportation services on an as-needed basis. Shared mobility is an umbrella term that encompasses a variety of transportation modes including carsharing, Bicycle-sharing systems, ridesharing companies, carpools, and microtransit.
Zimride by Enterprise Holdings is an American carpool program that matches inter-city drivers and passengers through social networking services. It is offered to universities and businesses as a matchmaking service. The company was founded in May 2007. After the launch of the Lyft app in May 2012 for intra-city rides, the Lyft app rapidly grew and became the focus of the company. Zimride officially renamed as Lyft in May 2013, and the Zimride service was sold to Enterprise Holdings in July 2013. As of July 2013, the service had over 350,000 users and has partnerships with Facebook and Zipcar.
Wingz is a vehicle for hire company that provides private, scheduled, and fixed-price rides in 30 major cities across the United States via mobile app. The service provides rides anywhere in the cities it serves, with a focus on airports. Wingz offers the ability to request specific drivers for rides and allows users to build a list of their favorite drivers for future bookings.
Sidecar was a US-based vehicle for hire company that provided transportation and delivery services. It was founded in 2011 in San Francisco and closed on December 31, 2015.
Hailo was a British technology platform that matched taxi drivers and passengers through its mobile phone application. Founded in London in 2011, the Hailo taxi service was available in 16 cities.
A ridesharing company is a company that, via websites and mobile apps, matches passengers with drivers of vehicles for hire that, unlike taxicabs, cannot legally be hailed from the street.
Ola Cabs is an Indian ridesharing company offering services that include vehicle for hire and food delivery. The company is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India and was developed by ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd. As of October 2019, Ola was valued at about $6.5 billion A variety of venture capitalists including Softbank have large stakes in the company.
Many communities, governments, and organizations have established rules and regulations that specifically govern ridesharing companies. In some jurisdictions, for-profit ridesharing operations are completely illegal. Regulations can include requirements for driver background checks, fares, the number of drivers, and licensing.
A robotaxi, also known as a self-driving taxi or a driverless taxi, is an autonomous car operated for a ridesharing company.
This is a timeline of Uber, which offers a variety of transportation and logistics services and is an early example of the rise of the sharing economy.
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Rideshare advertising is a form of digital, out-of-home advertising that uses in-car advertisements in ridesharing vehicles.
Peer-to-peer ridesharing can be divided along the spectrum from commercial, for-fee transportation network companies (TNC) to for-profit ridesharing services to informal carpooling arrangements. The term transportation network company comes from a 2013 California Public Utilities Commission ruling that decided to make the TNC revenue model legal. Almost all modern peer-to-peer ridesharing schemes rely on web application and mobile app technology.
Beat operates a taxi and ride-hailing mobile app, the Beat app, for smartphones and other mobile devices. Beat's headquarters are located in Athens, Greece, where it is popular among locals. However, about 90 percent of the company’s ride-booking activity is abroad, in Latin America, where more than 250,000 drivers work with the app.
A series of general strikes was coordinated on March 25, 2019 by Lyft and Uber drivers in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, California, United States led by rideshare advocate group Rideshare Drivers United. The strikes aimed to protest low wages, long hours, working conditions, and lack of benefits. The event was planned following Lyft's initial public offering. A second strike took place on May 8, 2019 in anticipation of Uber's initial public offering. The strike in response to Uber's IPO took place in 25 major cities across the United States, and were also joined by drivers in other locations worldwide where Uber operates.
FREE NOW is a mobility as a service provider headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. FREE NOW was formed in February 2019 from a joint venture between BMW and Daimler Mobility. Marc Berg is CEO of the FREE NOW Group.
Proposition 22, named Exempts App-Based Transportation and Delivery Companies from Providing Employee Benefits to Certain Drivers, was a ballot initiative in California on the November 3, 2020 state election which classified app-based drivers as independent contractors, instead of employees. It was passed with more than 58% of the vote.
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- 1 2 Lawler, Ryan (March 15, 2013). "Y Combinator-Backed Summon Provides a Hybrid Alternative to Ride-Sharing and Taxi Apps". TechCrunch .
- ↑ Lawler, Ryan (February 19, 2014). "With Funding From BMW And Khosla Ventures, InstantCab rebrands as Summon". TechCrunch .
- ↑ "InstantCab Rebrands as Summon, Backed by BMW in Expansion Round" . The Wall Street Journal . February 19, 2014.
- ↑ Said, Carolyn (April 16, 2014). "As Uber, Lyft, Sidecar grow, so do concerns of disabled" . San Francisco Chronicle .
- ↑ "O% (Yes, Zero!) Credit Card Processing Fees and Same Day Deposit for Taxi and Commercial Drivers". Summon.
- ↑ Said, Carolyn (April 16, 2014). "Summon matches Uber, Lyft price cuts" . San Francisco Chronicle .
- ↑ "Delivering when it counts the most: Flat Fares on New Year's Eve". Summon.
- ↑ YEUNG, KEN (January 11, 2014). "InstantCab unveils new FareBack program to save riders up to 30% on trips, adds 3x more drivers". TheNextWeb .
- ↑ "Letter from the San Francisco International Airport". Summon.
- ↑ Huet, Ellen (July 30, 2013). "Ride-share drivers cited at SFO for trespassing" . San Francisco Chronicle .
- ↑ Lawler, Ryan (April 4, 2013). "SFO Serves Cease-And-Desist Letters to Keep Ride-Sharing Companies From Operating at the Airport". TechCrunch .
- ↑ Yeung, Ken (September 19, 2013). "California Becomes First State To Regulate Ridesharing Services benefiting Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, and Summon". TheNextWeb .
- ↑ Healey, Jon (July 30, 2013). "State to L.A.: Hands off Uber, Lyft, Sidecar and Summon" . Los Angeles Times .
- ↑ Said, Carolyn (April 16, 2014). "THE TECHNOLOGY CHRONICLES: Summon gets first California "rideshare" permit" . San Francisco Chronicle .