A retired judge acting as arbitrator ruled that Uber and driver Vu Tran must pay $40 million to the parents of Emily Normandin-Parker, a 23-year-old UCLA graduate killed after Tran dropped her and a friend at an illegal gore point on a California freeway following a dispute over a cleaning fee. The arbitrator found Tran's account of the incident largely incredible and said he showed more concern for his car than for his passengers' safety. Uber says the arbitrator wrongly held the company legally responsible.
consumerrights.wiki
· 2026-09-21
DoorDash announced it will now deliver from every Costco warehouse in the US starting Thursday, requiring customers to link an existing Costco membership in the app. The move follows Uber Eats' announcement a day earlier that it's expanding Costco delivery from 17 states to all 47 it serves.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-17
Uber engineers describe a new mechanism built into shared infrastructure that makes retries 'context-aware,' allowing services to distinguish between errors originating locally versus those merely passed through from downstream dependencies. The system aims to replace uniform, blanket retry policies with conditional logic that adapts based on the severity of degradation across Uber's deep, fan-out-heavy microservice call chains.
uber.com
· 2026-09-17
Lucid and ridesharing firm Bolt have announced a partnership to bring at least 25,000 autonomous vehicles built on Lucid's midsize platform to European roads, with Bolt owning and operating the fleet. Bolt aims to have 100,000 autonomous vehicles on its platform by 2035, though no launch timeline was given for the Lucid-based robotaxis, which will likely use NVIDIA's Hyperion architecture for Level 4 autonomy.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-17
Uber and Costco have widened their delivery partnership from 17 states to 47, meaning almost 600 Costco warehouses now offer Uber Eats delivery to members. Shoppers must verify Costco membership before ordering, and the app will let some members buy Costco memberships or get discounts on Uber One, its paid subscription.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-16
Ahead of their public offerings, Amazon in 1997 and Uber in 2019 each explicitly told investors in their IPO prospectuses that they might never turn a profit. Amazon debuted at $18 a share, raising about $54 million at a roughly $438 million valuation, while Uber priced at $45 a share in one of history's largest tech IPOs, valued above $82 billion.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-16
Transforma Insights projects the number of automated urban delivery vehicles will jump from 28,000 in 2025 to 559,000 by 2035. The forecasted growth raises concerns about gig worker displacement at companies like Uber Eats and DoorDash, even as current robots' roughly two-mile range keeps human drivers necessary for now. Meanwhile, weak oversight—including over 20 states classifying these devices as pedestrians—is prompting cities such as Chicago, San Francisco and Toronto to impose restrictions or bans.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-15
Uber has updated its senior accounts feature to let older riders manage their own accounts without needing a linked family member, an option that was previously required. The update also introduces a new settings page letting seniors customize arrival signals, enable a simplified interface, and flag mobility aids like canes or walkers to drivers. Separately, Uber is piloting an 'Easy Entry Vehicle' option in nine unnamed markets for riders who need cars without a high step to enter.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-15
California's Public Employment Relations Board has officially certified the California Gig Workers Union as the bargaining representative for Uber and Lyft drivers, after at least 30% of active drivers showed support. The certification was enabled by Assembly Bill 1340, which grants independent contractor drivers the right to collectively bargain, making California the third state after Washington and Massachusetts to allow such unionization.
yro.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-13
Uber cut about 3,300 corporate jobs last week, roughly 10% of its corporate workforce, in its largest reduction since the pandemic. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference that savings from the cuts and reduced insurance costs would be reinvested, including lowering fares for riders, while more than $1 billion is earmarked for Uber's self-driving car efforts.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-11
Bill Lewis, 58, a former Wall Street broker laid off in 2013, invested his entire $180,000 401(k) into a Nestlé Toll House franchise, believing the established brand would guide him through unfamiliar territory as a first-time business owner. Despite strong initial sales growth, high mall operating costs made the store unprofitable, and after four years he was forced to shut it down. Lewis now works up to 75 hours a week driving for Uber and Lyft in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains to rebuild his finances.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-09
inDrive, the fare-negotiation rival to Uber, is scaling up new business lines including advertising, delivery and financial services that it began building over the past year. Its ad business, piloted in mid-2025, now runs in 25 markets, delivering more than 2 billion impressions and drawing over 2,000 paying advertisers monthly, two-thirds of whom return. The company is installing new leadership to grow these units alongside its core ride-hailing service across 1,200+ cities in 48 countries.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-09
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