Mobile ride-sharing app SideCar said today it is adding Boston, Chicago and Brooklyn to its growing roster of cities, mere days after competitor Uber was accused of violating state and city laws with its own services in a lawsuit filed by the Hub's taxi industry.
Launched in San Francisco last year, SideCar currently operates in eight U.S. markets, including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Austin and Seattle.
Unlike Uber and recent Hub service Hailo, SideCar is neither a taxi nor a limo service, but rather a ride-matching app "that connects people who need rides with vetted drivers from the community who are able and willing to share a ride," according to its website.
The company added all payments are "completely voluntary and are handled via a cashless, donation-based system between smartphones," and that all drivers are pre-vetted for safety and are free to give rides whenever they want.
On Tuesday, members of Boston's taxi industry filed a nine-count lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court against San Francisco-based Uber, accusing the company of operating a car-for-hire service that violates state and city laws, and deceives consumers about fees, drivers, safety and insurance.
"Uber pays none of the substantial capital costs and expenses required to operate a legal taxi and livery car business in Boston," said attorney Sam Perkins, who filed the suit on behalf of Boston Cab Dispatch Inc., and EJT Management, this week. "It uses a dispatch system that is not approved, ignores regulations that are essential to public safety and uses a payment system that illegally overcharges customers."
Michael Pao, general manager of Uber Boston, called the charges "baseless," adding Gov. Deval Patrick reversed a prior ban on the service in the Hub last summer.
"The Uber app is changing the transportation industry. In jurisdictions such as California, New York, Washington, D.C., and — yes — Massachusetts, there has been a steady drumbeat of progress in which pro-consumer, pro-innovation policymakers have recognized that everyone wins when new technology that fosters efficiency, affordability and choice in transportation is allowed to flourish," Pao said in a statement. "Hundreds of thousands of people all across the country and the world are embracing the convenience and reliability of the Uber technology."
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