Personal Technology Columnist Geoffrey Fowler shares the results of a test of ride-sharing apps UberX, Lyft, and Sidecar against local cabs in six major U.S. cities. Sometimes, it's OK to get in a ...

In UberX’s case, I simply needed to download the free app and create a profile with photo and credit card information. The selfie helps drivers identify riders for pickup.

SUV and black car drivers never received UberX requests until this summer, but they were promised a 35% to 50% increase in hourly income if they signed up. Suffice it to say, that hasn't happened.

But less than a year later, everything has changed. “UberX is such a crapshoot,” concurs my colleague Dan McQuade, who says he takes UberX seven to 10 times a month.

UberX driver Reagan Rucker drives a customer April 4 in downtown Washington. Rucker likes the flexibility of UberX because she can work when she wants. (Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post) ...

UberX—the cheaper alternative to Uber, regular—has announced that it's slashing its prices by 20 percent in New York for some unspecified period of time—a transparent effort to steal riders ...

UberX rides just became $1 more expensive. San Francisco ride-sharing company Uber announced Friday that it has begun charging customers a $1 “Safe Rides Fee” on every ride taken through its ...

Your UberX Driver May Be a Deranged Killer UberX critics (cab union lobbyists, anti-Capitalists, anti-technologists, anti-classists, people who’ve never used the service) like to talk about how ...

The Tuesday arrest of an UberX driver accused of dropping off a fare at the airport last week — only to return to her Denver home and unsuccessfully attempt to break in — exposes some risks of ...

Transportation Competition from UberX, Lyft has D.C. taxis crying foul May 11, 2014 ...

The California Department of Motor Vehicles said drivers for UberX, Lyft and Sidecar must obtain commercial license plates — a major threat to the booming app-based ride-hailing companies ...

UberX’s arrival was the culmination of months of negotiations and political infighting, but the 37-year-old Chopra knew nothing about that. He just assumed Uber service would be available, just ...