/tags/ride-hailing Ride-Hailing en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:01:00 GMT /transportation/2025-02-17/autonomous-vehicles-waymo-austin-driverless-cars-tx-uber Uber customers can sign up to be on a Waymo "interest" list through the app. Service is expected to be available this spring. Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:01:00 GMT /transportation/2025-02-17/autonomous-vehicles-waymo-austin-driverless-cars-tx-uber Isabella Zeff /transportation/2023-08-14/cookie-take-the-wheel-whats-with-all-the-driverless-cars-zooming-around-austin Imagine standing on a street corner in Central Austin and seeing a white car with black and red accents stop at a light. You look for the driver, but the seat is empty. The light turns green, and the car drives off on its own. Mon, 14 Aug 2023 10:01:00 GMT /transportation/2023-08-14/cookie-take-the-wheel-whats-with-all-the-driverless-cars-zooming-around-austin Mia Abbe /transportation/2022-10-06/heres-how-to-get-around-the-2022-austin-city-limits-music-festival Whether you're attending or avoiding, here's a definitive guide to navigating ACL. Thu, 06 Oct 2022 21:22:00 GMT /transportation/2022-10-06/heres-how-to-get-around-the-2022-austin-city-limits-music-festival Andrew Weber /transportation/2021-12-29/here-are-six-ride-hailing-companies-in-austin-that-arent-uber-or-lyft By offering rides exclusively in electric vehicles to transportation for kids to nonemergency trips to the doctor, each of these companies is trying to carve out a niche alongside two multibillion-dollar behemoths. Wed, 29 Dec 2021 17:17:00 GMT /transportation/2021-12-29/here-are-six-ride-hailing-companies-in-austin-that-arent-uber-or-lyft Nathan Bernier /business/2019-09-27/car2go-puts-brakes-on-car-rental-service-in-austin Car2go is pulling out of Austin.The business, owned by the German luxury-car maker Daimler, allows people to rent cars by the minute. In a message posted� Fri, 27 Sep 2019 20:26:56 GMT /business/2019-09-27/car2go-puts-brakes-on-car-rental-service-in-austin KUT Staff /transportation/2019-09-09/have-ride-hailing-services-like-uber-and-lyft-reduced-drunk-driving-arrests-in-austin Another weekend has passed, and for some people in Austin that meant tailgating at the UT-LSU game or heading to local bars. Many used ride-hailing� Mon, 09 Sep 2019 06:01:00 GMT /transportation/2019-09-09/have-ride-hailing-services-like-uber-and-lyft-reduced-drunk-driving-arrests-in-austin Samuel King /business/2019-03-26/advocates-say-lobbyists-shaped-texas-labor-rule-that-could-exempt-app-based-workers-from-benefits Workers' rights advocates called on the Texas Workforce Commission to abandon a proposed rule that would exempt gig economy contractors from unemployment� Tue, 26 Mar 2019 23:38:59 GMT /business/2019-03-26/advocates-say-lobbyists-shaped-texas-labor-rule-that-could-exempt-app-based-workers-from-benefits Andrew Weber /austin/2018-07-12/texas-usually-fights-austin-at-the-capitol-lately-the-fight-is-in-the-courtroom Austin has endured several legal jabs from the state in the past couple months.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton stepped into a dispute earlier this month� Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:00:00 GMT /austin/2018-07-12/texas-usually-fights-austin-at-the-capitol-lately-the-fight-is-in-the-courtroom Audrey McGlinchy /news/2018-04-03/will-you-subscribe-to-your-next-car From Texas Standard:If you are a millennial, you may be among those who value time over ownership, so you may not be interested in buying car. But what if� Tue, 03 Apr 2018 18:50:41 GMT /news/2018-04-03/will-you-subscribe-to-your-next-car Rhonda Fanning /business/2017-06-21/ride-hailing-nonprofit-struggles-to-survive-in-austin The return of Uber and Lyft to Austin has put the city’s only ride-hailing nonprofit in a fight for survival.RideAustin, one of several small companies� Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:27:23 GMT /business/2017-06-21/ride-hailing-nonprofit-struggles-to-survive-in-austin Giulia Afiune