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Yahoo LifeUber driver fired after kicking woman out of her car for being gay: 'I can reject any ride I want to'
"You need to get out of my car because you are gay," a New Jersey woman, who filmed the incident, says she was told.
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Uber drives 400 miles round trip to take passengers to aunt's 100th birthday: 'I'm a driver, that's what I do'
Two sisters found themselves stuck at an airport after weather caused them to miss their connecting flight. In one last ditch effort, they ordered an Uber to take them 200 miles to their aunt's 100th birthday party.
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Legally blind and deaf woman denied Uber ride due to service dog: ’It broke me down’
“I just got sick and tired of being turned away... I had to step up and demand more action,” Robbie Esper, who is legally deaf and blind, says.
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Comedian says Lyft driver harassed her: 'I thought I might be kidnapped, raped, or even killed'
Anna Gillcrist is calling out the transportation company for failing to take action after she reported a “serious issue” with a driver.
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Burglar asks officer in unmarked police car, 'Are you my Lyft driver?' while attempting to make a clean getaway
A homeless man, who is accused of breaking into a home in New Jersey, mistook an unmarked police car for his getaway vehicle — a Lyft car he had ordered.
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Blind woman says Uber driver refused to let her in car with service dog
A legally blind woman is speaking out against Uber after a driver denied her a ride because she was traveling with a service dog.
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Drunk Uber passenger caught on dashcam video trying to grab steering wheel from driver
"We almost died on the freeway."
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Uber driver's racist interaction with black passenger caught on video
An emotionally charged between a white Uber driver and his black passenger was captured on video.
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Uber Eats customer finds soiled underpants with his meal after delivery woman took off running
The customer reached into the bag delivered to him and what he first thought was a napkin turned out to be a pair of soiled underpants.
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Uber driver allegedly harasses gay couple with homophobic slurs, drags one man by car on New York City street
The couple reported the driver to the police, and Uber has since refunded the $17.46 for the ride.
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Uber suspends driver accused of 'abuse' by actresses Tara Strong and Rena Sofer
Uber has suspended a driver after actresses Tara Strong and Rena Sofer accused him of abuse because he allegedly behaved erratically after learning that they were Democrats.
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This blind man says his Uber driver canceled ride because he has a service dog
A visually impaired Alabama man says his company's security cameras showed the driver pulling up, seeing the dog, and then taking off.
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Woman in Las Vegas jumped from a moving car in order to escape man allegedly posing as Uber driver
Elizabeth Suarez shared her traumatizing Uber story on Facebook in hopes that it would help protect others from the same fate.
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Uber driver suspended for live-streaming videos of his passengers without consent
Some of us already assume that cameras are everywhere, and that we’ve reached Orwellian levels of security surveillance any time we’re in public. That’s what makes the story Uber and Lyft driver Jason Gargac in St. Louis, who was live-streaming videos of his passengers without their knowledge, such an unpleasant shock to many.
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A North Carolina woman needed a ride for her children, so the savvy single mom created 'Uber for kids'
The app may even help you feel more like a parent and less like a chauffeur.
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Meghan Markle Did a Makeup Tutorial in an Uber
She got some help from Bobbi Brown for this super-easy beauty look.
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Uber Launches Platform to Drive People to Medical Appointments
Uber Health allows medical staff to request rides for patients.
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'Drowsy driving' is deadly. And Uber is taking action.
We all know the dangers of drunk driving, but researchers note that "drowsy driving" is an equally preventable danger on the roads.
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Gay couple say Uber driver kicked them out after they kissed
A same-sex couple say their Uber driver ejected them from his car after they shared a kiss, leaving them on the side of an unsafe road in the early hours of the morning.
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What these sassy Instagram celebrities think Uber drivers say about them
All Uber users will soon be able to know why their driver gave them a bad rating.
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This Woman Received $220 Worth Of Credits After Giving Birth In Her Uber
A woman who gave birth in an Uber in Singapore has been given $220 (S$300) in Uber credits, along with a hamper, Mashable reports. Last Thursday, 26 year old mom-to-be Siti Halimah Mahamud felt labor pains and called herself an Uber to the hospital. Halfway there, though, Mahamud's water broke, according to The Independent.
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Dark-Skinned Model Gives Her Uber Driver a Reality Check: ‘Beautiful Melanin’ Is ‘a Blessing’
Nyakim Gatwech is a model from South Sudan living in Minnesota. Recently on Instagram, she shared a story about her dark skin. “I was [asked by] my uber driver the other day… ‘don’t take this offensive but if you were given 10 thousand dollars would you bleach your skin for that amount?’ I couldn’t even respond I started laughing so hard. Than he said so that a no and I was like hell to the f*king yeah that a no, why on earth would I ever bleach this beautiful melanin God bless with me,” she wrote.
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Uber Teams With Marc Jacobs on Yet Another Fashion-Focused Collaboration
Uber continues to do everything it can to please the fashion crowd, this time collaborating with Marc Jacobs to promote the brand’s Daisy fragrance.
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Millennials Are Ditching Their Cars — And a Crucial Rite of Passage
It's not because they all failed at parallel parking.