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Safety Tips: Ride Safe When Riding with Uber or Lyft

Caution is emphasized when ordering a ride after the recent death of a college student who got into a car she mistook for an Uber.

Written by Erika Suarez, Online Editor-In-Chief
Apr 10, 2019

Awareness has elevated for ride-sharing safety after the death of Samantha Josephson. A 21-year-old college student dies last weekend after getting into...

Catch a Free Ride to the Polls on Election Day

Free rides? Count me in.

Written by Erika Suarez, Online Editor-In-Chief
Nov 5, 2018

Metro and six other local transit agencies will offer free transportation this Election Day. You won't need a TAP card to board a bus or train to your...

LYFT Buys AR Company to help Build Self-Driving Cars

Written by Luis Gutierrez, Podcast Director
Oct 25, 2018

Lyft is finally stepping into the self-driving car industry. They’ve acquired Blue Vision Labs, a UK based augmented reality firm that helps cars know...

Uber CEO under fire for breaching Apple’s privacy guidelines

Written by Crystian Mendoza, Sports Writer
May 9, 2017

Uber’s C.E.O., Travis Kalanick, has recently risked having the Uber app removed from the Apple App Store after it was discovered that Uber had been secretly...

Uber CEO under fire for breaching Apple’s privacy guidelines

Written by Crystian Mendoza, Sports Editor
May 2, 2017

Uber’s C.E.O., Travis Kalanick, has recently risked having the Uber app removed from the Apple App Store after it was discovered that Uber had been secretly...

Uber: The Quicker Picker Upper

Written by Andrew Rudin, Science and Technology Editor
Nov 3, 2016

Uber has just announced that it will make their app more intuitive for both the rider and driver experience. Uber made a post on their website November...