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Good website #uber guys...
I needed to update my password. Then I couldn't go back (yes yes, outside of my browser's back button)

Leona Health, maker of an AI-copilot that integrates with doctors' WhatsApp accounts in LATAM to manage patient communications, raised a $14M seed led by a16z (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/16/uber

Uber Eats alum lands $14M seed from a16z to fix WhatsApp chaos for LatAm's doctors | TechCrunch
Leona Health built an AI co-pilot to manage the flood of patient messages Latin American doctors receive on WhatsApp.

"Terry Gross Conducts 'Fresh Air' Interview On Bluetooth During Uber Shift" #CPB Corporation for Public Broadcasting

The US FTC, along with 21 states and DC, files an amended complaint against Uber, alleging deceptive billing and cancellation practices related to Uber One (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-ftc-21-states-file-…

From (1) street food to (2) temples to (3) a waiting spot for Uber Eat drivers to (4) elevated (thus protected) electronic infrastructure. Old town life in a rapidly changing place.
#streetphotography, based on our first Silicon Urbanism walkshop in Hsinchu, #Taiwan. A TW-GER happen…

Uber launches its B2B logistics service Uber Direct in India with ONDC integration, starting in Bengaluru with grocery deliveries for Zepto and KPN Farm Fresh (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatime…

Uber enters B2B logistics with Uber Direct on ONDC, onboards Zepto, KPN Farm fresh
Uber is broadening its B2B logistics portfolio in India with the introduction of Uber Direct, in partnership with ONDC. Kicking off with grocery deliveries for allies like Zepto, the service plans to branch out to popular food chains, including KFC and Burger King.

Neue Broschüre Website über den CRIC erschienen
(Quelle: https://aroma-zapatista.de/blog/neue-broschure-website-uber-den-cric-erschienen)
Wir freuen uns sehr, dass der Verein Transgalaxia und die Zeitschrift ila zusammen einen 2. Band der Bro…

Uber plans to launch data labelling tasks in the US for some drivers to earn extra money, appearing under "digital tasks" in the driver app, later this fall (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Uber launches Uber Intelligence, an insights platform that lets advertisers tap into Uber's data about customer trips and deliveries (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-ads-launches-intelli…

Uber is turning trip and takeout data into insights for marketers
Uber has said its ad business is on track to generate $1.5 billion in revenue in 2025. It's hoping a new insights platform will encourage more spend.

Hier ook nog niks vastgelegd.
Surveillance under Surveillance
https://sunders.uber.space/#how

Well worth signing if you live in California
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/let-the-people-decide-give-us-a-vote-on-autonomous-vehicles?source=direct_link&

Let the People Decide: Give Us a Vote on Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have flooded San Francisco’s streets, raising serious safety and traffic concerns for residents, pedestrians, animal advocates, and local businesses. In 2025 alone, both Waymo and Zoox recalled over 1,200 vehicles due to crash risks. AVs have also blocked emergency vehicles, caused traffic jams, and created dangerous situations for people walking, biking, and driving. Ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft already made traffic worse, accounting for about half th…

Well worth signing if you live in California
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/let-the-people-decide-give-us-a-vote-on-autonomous-vehicles?source=direct_link&

Let the People Decide: Give Us a Vote on Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have flooded San Francisco’s streets, raising serious safety and traffic concerns for residents, pedestrians, animal advocates, and local businesses. In 2025 alone, both Waymo and Zoox recalled over 1,200 vehicles due to crash risks. AVs have also blocked emergency vehicles, caused traffic jams, and created dangerous situations for people walking, biking, and driving. Ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft already made traffic worse, accounting for about half th…

But I filled out my Uber registration card!
#Discworld #gooseberry

🪣 Drivers Beg for Relief Bill to Allow More Parking for Bathroom Breaks and Rest
#nyc

Drivers Beg for Relief Bill to Allow More Parking for Bathroom Breaks and Rest
For-hire drivers who work for companies like Uber and Lyft often struggle with urinary issues and have a hard time finding bathrooms during long shifts, advocates testified in the City Council.

#silentSunday

how does uber's website manage to be so awful
they're worth how many millions? i could make a more responsive website in two weeks. they have hundreds of people on staff

Sources: New Jersey's AG is investigating the frequency of sexual violence during Uber rides and whether Uber has misrepresented the safety of its service (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/business/uber-nj-attorney-g…

N.J. Attorney General Investigating Uber Over Handling of Sexual Assaults
The investigation, according to people with knowledge of the inquiry, is focused on whether Uber committed consumer fraud in how it promoted consumer safeguards.

Dieses #Zeitraffervideo zeigt das #Silvesterfeuerwerk über einem Teil des Berliner Ortsteils #Wedding 2015. Es wurden dazu über 600

Spektakuläres Silvesterfeuerwerk über dem Berliner Wedding im Zeitraffer
Das Video zeigt das Silvesterfeuerwerk über dem Berliner Ortsteil Wedding als additives Bild aus über 600 Einzelaufnahmen.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@lars/115289144843731902
Uber-dad joke 😄

Encountering a lot of the scam where I buy something in the UK and it recognizes my US credit card and charges me in dollars instead of pounds. With a currency conversion fee, often 3% or more. I do not have the option to prevent this. Mostly this is at POS terminals in restaurants, etc.
Uber also does this but they have a clear notification, an opt-out, and a sort of reasonable 1.5% fee. Still don't want it, I have 0% fee on my credit card.

Menulog, acquired by Just Eat in 2015, plans to shut down in Australia on November 26, leaving Uber Eats and DoorDash as the country's main food delivery apps (Tegan Jones/SmartCompany)
https://www.smartcompany.com.au/hospitality/menulog-australia-closing/…

Menulog to shut down after 20 years, 120 jobs cut
Menulog will shut down in Australia after 20 years, cutting 120 jobs as Just Eat Takeaway retreats from the local food delivery market.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill that gives ride-hailing drivers in California the right to unionize while remaining classified as independent contractors (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/lyft-uber-rideshare-driver-union-cali…

California Uber and Lyft drivers get union rights
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill allowing 800,000 Uber and Lyft drivers in the state to join a union and bargain collectively for better wages and benefits. The legislation is a significant compromise in the yearslong battle between labor unions and tech companies over drivers’ rights. California is the second state to give rideshare drivers the right to unionize. In exchange, Newsom also agreed to sign a bill supported by Uber and Lyft to lower the companies’ insurance requir…

Uber plans to launch its first robotaxi in the San Francisco Bay Area in late 2026, built on Lucid's Gravity SUV, after testing 100 cars in the coming months (Dee-Ann Durbin/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/uber-robotaxi-…

Uber to deploy Lucid-powered robotaxi fleet in San Francisco
Uber said Wednesday that the San Francisco Bay Area will be the first market for its specially built autonomous taxi, which is expected to launch in late 2026. The San Francisco-based ride-hailing company said in July it was developing a robotaxi with the electric car company Lucid and the self-driving technology company Nuro Inc. Uber said it plans to have 100 test vehicles on the road in the coming months. Within six years, Uber plans to deploy 20,000 or more Lucid-based autonomous taxis in m…

Door Dasher Life Fun Facts: This might be useful to think of when you're rating your Dasher.... Who's at fault in this situation?
Let's say I accept an offer for McDonalds.
I head straight there... pull up to the store, and as I walk in the app buzzes again with a 2nd order for the same McDs.
Naturally, I accept. (not accepting reduces my Acceptance rate and potentially my ability to get new offers).
Now I have two orders at the same place! Great! Efficient!
The first order comes up quickly, I put it in my bag, 'pick it up' in the app, and wait for the 2nd order.
Now the fun begins. The restaurant says the 2nd order will be 10 minutes beyond the pickup time. I notify the app, and both customers of the wait... and I wait... and wait... if I remove the 2nd order from my app it affects my completion rate *and* means the customer has to wait for another dasher to come along.
Eventually the 2nd order is ready and I head out to make the deliveries. Both of course now late.. the first potentially cold (even in an insulated bag) *and* late.
In addition, sometimes, often a day or two later, the dasher will receive a “Contract Violation” for the lateness. 3 Contract Violations in a short period and you can be deactivated.
So... there ya go. It happens. I'm never sure what the best course of action is... unless both orders are immediately ready, which you can never predict, someone will end up losing; the store, customer, dasher, or a mix of all three.
#DasherLife #GigWork #DoorDash #Uber
P.S. It's worth noting that Door Dash is the only service I know of that is this strict. Uber Eats does not have mechanisms like this (at least in my experience). Never used Skip, so can't say on that.

Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on the company's turnaround, AI, paying drivers more, Uber, partnership with Tensor for autonomous vehicle tech, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/811532/lyft-uber-david-risher-interv…

Lyft CEO David Risher on paying drivers more and the shift to robotaxis
How Lyft is thinking about autonomy in the AI era, and why service is the most integral rideshare component.

Uber discontinues monthly EV bonuses as it scales back key climate efforts after embracing Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, which slashed clean-energy incentives (Ben Elgin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-1…

Uber launches prepaid passes, letting customers pay a discounted price in advance on frequently taken trips, in bundles of 5, 10, 15, or 20 rides (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/782765/uber-prepaid-pass-bundle-discount-route…

Uber launches prepaid passes for frequent routes
Uber announced prepaid passes for frequently made trips, when purchased in bulk.

Uber starts deploying fully driverless WeRide robotaxis in Abu Dhabi, after launching its robotaxi service with safety drivers in the UAE in December 2024 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/828685/uber-weride-robotaxi-fully-driverless-u…

Uber’s robotaxi service in UAE now includes fully driverless vehicles
Uber and WeRide announced that some of its robotaxis in Abu Dhabi, UAE, would be fully driverless.

DoorDash partners with Serve Robotics to use its autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, starting in LA; Serve also partners with Uber; SERV jumps 20% (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-09/door…

Filing: Indian ride-hailing app Rapido doubled its valuation to $2.3B after Swiggy offloaded its 12% Rapido stake for ~$270M in a secondary share sale (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/uber-rival-rapido-dou…

Uber-rival Rapido doubles valuation to $2.3B following Swiggy stake sale | TechCrunch
Swiggy has offloaded its entire 12% stake in Rapido for about $270 million through two separate deals.

Uber partners with Avride to launch robotaxi rides in Dallas, marking Uber's fourth US city to offer autonomous ride options after Phoenix, Austin, and Atlanta (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Uber acquihires Belgian data labeling startup Segments.ai to expand its lidar data labeling capabilities; its founders and staff will join Uber AI Solutions (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10…

Archy, which offers AI-powered dental practice management software, raised a $20M Series B led by TCV, bringing its total funding to $47M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/dental-saas-provider-archy-raises-seriesb/

Exclusive: Founded By Uber Alumni, Archy Raises $20M To Put Dental Practices ‘On Autopilot’
San Jose, California-based Archy, which is building AI agents into its software platform to handle the busywork at dental offices, will use the new funding to bulk up its engineering, AI and go-to-market teams.

Uber plans a fleet of 100,000 autonomous vehicles powered by Nvidia's new Drive AGX Hyperion 10, starting in 2027 (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/uber-eyes-fleet-of-100-000-nvi…

Uber reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to $13.5B, Gross Bookings up 21% YoY to $49.7B, trips up 22% YoY to 3.5B, and a $1.1B operating profit, below $1.6B est. (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9ceb0184-79d6-4097-af7a-f6ea3d3909d8

Uber expects non-restaurant deliveries to hit an annual run rate of $12.5B in gross bookings by the end of 2025, up 25% from the $10B rate it shared in May (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Sources: Uber plans to invest in the Hong Kong listings of Pony AI and WeRide, deepening its Chinese robotaxi ties, including ~$100M in Pony AI's share sale (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Uber plans to launch sidewalk robot deliveries in Europe via a partnership with Starship, starting in UK cities Leeds and Sheffield in December (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-20…

Spreadsheets!!!
Filled in my #dasher tracking sheet today and added a chart!
This one shows most of the stores I've got orders from since I started tracking that more closely in March. (there is a 'long tail' of <5 orders on the right that is not included in the picture.)
No big surprises for me in here. McDs and Dairy Queen are the 'bread and butter' locations. Other good performers pop up as the number of orders declines including NoodleBox, Boston Pizza, and Walmart.
Little Valley and Panago are good ones on the less frequent side.
7-11 is frequent, but pay is terrible.
“Walmart SFS" is their package delivery vs. grocery. It's an anomaly. It does not allow tips, and the orders are generally 5-10 packages at a time per offer which is why it has the most orders, but the very little cash.
I'm also always considering these numbers geographically... as in, where is the best place to stage myself for the most pay. There is a 'north' and 'south' side of town and It's not a clear choice.
#PortAlberni #DasherLife #DoorDash #Uber #GigWork #Charts #Data #Spreadsheet #AppleNumbers

As you might have imagined, last night during the #WorldSeries was a good night for #DoorDashing
There were few lulls.
4:23PM - 10:09PM
18 DD = $120.50
5 UE = $49.73
But it was also a weird night because two things happened that have never before:
1) I had to return a whole UE order because it contained alcohol, the customer had no valid ID, and the Uber app refused to complete it any other way. So be forewarned! (I was shocked that I still got full pay!?)
2) I came *this* close to running out of charge in the EV! It is only the second time since owning the car that it has gone under 5%! The little 🐢 icon came on and everything! It is not usually a problem but with commuting to work 170km (starting with 80% charge) cooler weather, rain, using the defog constantly for 5.5 hours while dashing and an extra long night (I usually only go to 9PM) I pushed it a little too far! 😂 I did 30kph for the last 3km from the last delivery to home base. 😂 🪫 I should have realized the night before and charged to 90 or 100%.
#dasherlife #doordash #ubereats #uber #ev #mlb #food #delivery #kona #hyundai #electricCar