Opponents of Uber, Lyft and other smartphone-powered transportation services have long lobbied for regulators to treat these companies the same way taxi companies are treated, given that they're ...

Uber spokeswoman Nairi Hourdajian said no background check process is perfect, ... L.A. and San Diego included 475 livery drivers and 600 taxi drivers whom Uber rejected because they had been ...

Uber says that in 2014, at least 600 active taxi drivers who also applied to Uber in San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco failed its background check for problems such as violent crimes ...

DETROIT — Uber will start doing annual criminal background checks on U.S. drivers and hire a company that constantly monitors criminal arrests as it tries to do a better job of keeping riders safe.

The background-check service that ride-hailing company Uber uses to screen potential drivers did not flag the criminal records of 25 drivers who gave thousands of rides to customers in Los Angeles ...

Uber bills itself as a safe way to travel, and the ride-sharing service tries to live up to that billing by putting prospective drivers through background checks. However, taxi unions have ...

Uber, under fire around the globe for how it screens drivers, said it will toughen up its background checks and take other measures to improve passenger safety. Phillip Cardenas, the head of ...

Uber says that in 2014, at least 600 active taxi drivers who also applied to Uber in San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco failed its background check for problems such as violent crimes ...

Uber says that in 2014, at least 600 active taxi drivers who also applied to Uber in San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco failed its background check for problems such as violent crimes ...

DRIVER BACKGROUND CHECKS This is where taxi advocates hit Uber hardest, saying that Uber’s checks fail because they do not include fingerprinting of would-be drivers. Many law enforcement experts say ...

The taxi industry, facing an existential threat from Uber, has highlighted a series of incidents as evidence that an Uber trip is a gamble passengers should not take. Then again, taxi drivers have ...