Will Uber let drivers set their own fares? Reacting to California passing AB5, which requires rideshare drivers to become employees, Uber’s scrambling. They’ve rolled out a limited test to see what happens if they allow drivers to set their own fares. Why would Uber do this? If drivers set their own fares, they look more …
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Uber Works the Gig Economy
Uber’s creating Uber Works, a temporary staffing business solution, and attempting to diversify their play in the gig economy? Yeah. Rideshare driving not working out? Uber hopes you need another gig! Would you rather work cleaning? Catering? Doing food prep? Assembly line? Events? Moving loads in a warehouse? Maybe you can make more money as …
Driving Efficiency: No Lollygagging!
Do you know your rideshare driiving efficiency?. You might guess. You might think you know, and with this new law (and others like it), you will be required to know.
Rideshare Evolution
Only the strong (read fittest for environment) will survive. Rideshare Evolutions is no different.
Free EV Charging
Sounds too good to be true, right? Nobody would provide free EV charging, that would be ridiculous. That would be like if they just gave away gas! Inconceivable! Read on.
Rideshare EV Charging Using Clean Energy
Driving an electric vehicle (EV) in Colorado is not only using renewables, it is being supported and encouraged for Rideshare drivers by the local utility company Xcel.
Rideshare: A Preview of the Future
There are three key elements to the future of rideshare as an industry and for owner/operators: Electric, Fleets, RoboTaxi.
Uber and Lyft will fail miserably
All current rideshare platforms will fail because their RoboTaxi software cannot scale, and that is the future. That does not mean there won’t be RoboTaxis
You are a Contractor!
If you drive Rideshare, you are a contractor. Get over it. You work when you want. You work for other companies. when you want and who you want. You know what the payment agreement is before you start. You decide who does or does not get into your personal car. You deduct all your expenses …
Robo-taxis: what they mean to the Rideshare Industry
Let me let you in on a secret. Cars that can drive themselves, autonomous vehicles (AVs), have existed for about 10 years or so. An autonomous vehicle used commercially becomes a robotaxi. It’s an automated Uber, if you will. AV robotaxis are on the road right now, in multiple cities. This is a fact, but …