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Uber Must Pay $40M After Fatal Freeway Drop-Off

Arbitrator finds company and driver liable for death of 23-year-old in California

(Newser) - A late-night Uber ride that fatally ended on the shoulder of a Southern California freeway has resulted in a $40 million arbitration award. The parents of 23-year-old Emily Normandin-Parker received the sum after an arbitrator found the company and driver Vu Tran liable in her 2023 death, reports ABC News...

The Dutch Aren't Messing Around With Uber

Data protection officials hit company with $965M fine over automatic suspensions of drivers

(Newser) - Dutch data-protection authorities have fined Uber nearly $1 billion, saying the ride-hailing company used automated software to suspend driver accounts, sometimes permanently, with no human review to check for mistakes. The Dutch Data Protection Authority said on Friday that it's imposing a fine of close to $965 million because...

Uber Eats Wants Drones to Hurry Up Your Delivery


Uber Eats
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Aug 18, 2026 6:05 PM CDT

Uber Eats Sends in the Drones

New partnership with Zipline aims for 5- to 10-minute deliveries

(Newser) - Uber Eats wants your pad thai dropped in minutes, not half an hour—and it's turning to drones to do it. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the company is partnering with Zipline to roll out aerial deliveries in Dallas and Houston by year's end, with a moonshot...

Safety Net Increasingly Catches Amazon, Gig Workers

GAO finds rising reliance among employees on federal benefits

(Newser) - More Americans are working and still turning to safety-net programs—and a growing share of them punch in for Amazon jobs or fire up gig apps. A new Government Accountability Office report finds that, in 11 states studied, the number of Amazon workers on food stamps and Medicaid nearly tripled...

US Car Market Is Expected to Shrink
US Car Market Is
Expected to Shrink
Jun 29, 2026 2:00 AM CDT

US Car Market Is Expected to Shrink

Analysts warn aging buyers, high prices, and alternatives will curb demand

(Newser) - America's days of easily churning out 17 million-plus new car sales a year may be in the rearview mirror, CNBC reports. A new Bain & Company analysis flags a bundle of forces—fewer births, tighter immigration, high prices, and rising alternatives to ownership—that could push annual US sales...

The 10 Oddest Things Left in Ubers Over the Past 10 Years

A 75-gallon fish tank makes the list

(Newser) - The items we most commonly leave behind in Ubers make for an unsurprising list: phones, wallets, luggage, keys, headphones, clothing, passports, glasses, jewelry, and laptops. But for 10 years now, Uber's Lost & Found Index has catalogued the strangest things to be left behind, and the list is once...

Uber Leader Questions Soaring AI Spend, With Murky Benefits

President/COO Andrew Macdonald is skeptical after firm burns through AI budget for 2026 early

(Newser) - Uber's AI tab is climbing fast, but its top brass says the payoff isn't keeping pace. During the Rapid Response podcast that aired last week, Uber President and COO Andrew Macdonald said that his company blew through its AI budget for 2026 in just four months and is...

Empty Waymos Keep Circling Atlanta Cul-De-Sac

Neighbors say circling vehicles clog cul-de-sac, raise safety concerns

(Newser) - In one Atlanta neighborhood, some of the city's most cutting-edge cars are driving neighbors batty. Residents on Battleview Drive in northwest Atlanta say empty Waymo self-driving vehicles have been repeatedly looping through their cul-de-sac, sometimes by the dozens, even though they aren't picking up passengers. Neighbors told WSB-TV...

Uber CEO's Rider Rating Is Below Average

Dara Khosrowshahi says he's trying to improve his score of 4.83 out of 5

(Newser) - Uber's boss is riding with a less-than-perfect score of his own. Dara Khosrowshahi revealed on the podcast Sourcery that his passenger rating sits at 4.83 out of 5—slightly below Uber's average rider score of 4.89, reports Mint . "I gotta get to 4.9," he said. Even the...

First Electric Air Taxi Zips Across NYC

Joby Aviation demo cut trip from JFK Airport to Manhattan from 2 hours to less than 10 minutes

(Newser) - New York just got a glimpse of a future where the ride to JFK takes minutes, not hours. Joby Aviation this week ran the first point-to-point electric air-taxi demonstration flights in the city, shuttling its eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft between the airport and multiple Manhattan heliports, including...

Verdict Signals More Trouble Ahead for Uber

Company loses North Carolina bellwether case it had selected as test

(Newser) - Uber has lost its second consecutive courtroom test over rider safety. A federal jury in Charlotte, NC, on Monday found Uber liable for a 2019 incident, marking its second straight loss in the first of more than 3,000 sexual assault and sexual harassment lawsuits it faces. The plaintiff, Brianna...

Uber Makes $1.25B Deal on Rivian Robotaxi Fleet

The vehicles will initially be deployed in Miami and San Francisco in 2028

(Newser) - Uber says it will invest up to $1.25 billion in Rivian Automotive to help launch up to 50,000 robotaxis. Uber, or its fleet partners, are expected to buy 10,000 fully autonomous Rivian R2 robotaxis, with the option to purchase up to 40,000 more in 2030, reports...

Uber's Women-Only Option Goes Nationwide

New 'Women Drivers' feature allows female drivers, passengers to be matched with each other

(Newser) - Uber launched a feature Monday to allow both women riders and drivers across the US to be matched with other women for trips, reports the AP , expanding a pilot program aimed at addressing concerns about the safety of its ride-hailing platform. The new feature is being rolled out nationwide despite...

Uber Cracks Down on Driver Background Checks

Firm tightens driver background checks after probe revealed protection gaps against violent offenders

(Newser) - Uber's background checks are about to get tougher, though the company isn't saying exactly when or how. The New York Times reports that, following its own earlier investigation that found Uber had allowed drivers with a range of felony convictions, including some violent ones, to keep picking up...

Uber Loses Landmark Sexual Assault Trial

Jury awards $8.5M to woman who was raped by driver

(Newser) - A federal jury in Arizona has dealt Uber a potentially costly setback in its long-running fight over responsibility for assaults by its drivers. Jurors in Phoenix on Thursday ordered the company to pay $8.5 million to passenger Jaylynn Dean, who testified that her Uber driver raped her during a...

15-Year-Old Charged With Killing His Uber Driver

Police say Georgia suspect shot driver on New Year's Day, stole his vehicle

(Newser) - An early-morning New Year's Day ride in suburban Atlanta ended in lethal violence for a 58-year-old Uber driver, and a 15-year-old is now facing an adult murder charge, reports Fox News . Police in Lawrenceville, about 30 miles northeast of Atlanta, say Cesar Tejada of Grayson picked up a passenger...

Uber Drivers Often Stay on the Road Despite Accusations

Company has touted its technology as ensuring passenger safety

(Newser) - Uber's own data has long warned that drivers flagged for sexual misconduct are far more likely to commit serious assault, yet many of those drivers continue picking up passengers, a New York Times investigation finds. The report centers on cases in Pennsylvania, Texas, Georgia, Florida, and Oklahoma in which...

After SNL Roast, Uber Unveils 'YOUBER'

Year-end summary of rides, deliveries comes just days after eerily similar SNL parody

(Newser) - Your Uber habit now comes with a highlight reel, and maybe a reality check. Days after Saturday Night Live lampooned the idea of an "Uber Eats Wrapped" that exposes just how much people spend on late-night nuggets and other takeout, Uber rolled out something strikingly similar in real life....

Facing Jail, CEO Shuts Ride-Hailing Service in DC

Joshua Sear says Empower will cease operations there after he previously defied court orders to stop

(Newser) - The CEO of Empower, a ride-hailing startup aiming to disrupt the taxi industry, agreed on Tuesday to halt operations in Washington, DC, after a judge accused him of contempt of court and threatened him with jail for defying orders to stop. Joshua Sear, who founded Empower in 2019, conceded...

Uber Prevails in Landmark Driver Assault Trial

Case is first of hundreds challenging company's handling of sexual assaults

(Newser) - A California jury has found Uber not liable in the first US trial over driver sexual assault claims, setting a precedent for hundreds of similar lawsuits and putting the company's safety practices under renewed scrutiny. The plaintiff, identified in court as Jessica C., alleged that her 2016 ride...

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