Uber, the private driver-hailing app company that’s run into legal trouble in Washington, D.C., NYC, and Chicago has now been slapped with a class-action lawsuit on its home turf: San Francisco, Betabeat reports. Uber is being sued by taxicab drivers under San Francisco’s Transporation Code, who claim that Uber unlawfully partners with “unauthorized and unpermitted drivers” and that its business model “is built upon deceiving the public, ignoring public safety regulations, circumventing legally established rates and pricing models, dodging taxes and fees imposed on other public transportation providers, and shifting all the risks and liability to others.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=162937