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 ...

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 and other rideshare companies perform similar background checks, but they don’t go through such an extensive interview process. That, in turn, could allow potentially dangerous behaviors ...

Whereas the taxi industry does a background check against the Federal Bureau of Investigation's database, Uber uses public databases for their background checks, the complaint states.

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 ...