California Public Utilities Commission, which has oversight of ride share and taxis, ordered Uber to “pay a $7.3 million fine and hand over required information about safety and accessibility — or shut down in the ride service’s home state.”
Other ride share companies had provided the California Public Utilities Commission information, including:
- number of customers requesting rides in vehicles accommodating people with disabilities
- how often they complied with requests from people with disablities
- the number of rides requested & accepted within each ZIP code
- report the cause of every traffic incident involving one of their drivers.
Next step: Appeal of the fine.