Charleston police plan to sting UberX drivers, Uber says it will pay fines | Region | The State

BY ABIGAIL DARLINGTON

The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.July 21, 2014

However, the city's strategy of penalizng UberX drivers may be futile. Taylor Bennett, a spokesman for Uber, said the company will pay for all the fines that its drivers in Charleston are issued by law enforcement officers, even if the drivers are cited more than once for the same violation.

That may not be an empty promise. The San Francisco-based technology company is backed by Google Ventures, which recently estimated that the company is worth more than $200 billion, according to Bloomberg.

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