A pending lawsuit against Uber says the smartphone car service is partially responsible for a little girl's death by encouraging illegal distracted driving. We looked at Uber's internal training materials, and it's easy to see how it could keep your eyes off the road.

The world's most popular room-renting service is now illegal in the largest city in the United States, CNET reports. This could be a setback.

On demand car service Uber is handy in a pinch (or a lightning storm), but it's pissed off traditional cab drivers. Many are afraid they'll be driven out of a job—or "disrupted," in Valley-speak—but are losing in big markets like DC. Add New York to the non-elite defeat.