Lyft

Lyft CEO David Risher told CNBC’s Jim Cramer about the success of his company’s new “on-time pickup promise” launched ahead of the holiday travel season.

The ride-hailing app’s new feature aims to let women and nonbinary people feel more in control of their experience.

The company said it launched the feature to give riders “peace of mind.”

Ride-hailing and food delivery companies say extreme violence is rare among the millions of trips completed each week by gig workers. But three attacks in Florida last month sent ripples of fear among some app-based drivers.

A week after assuming the role of CEO at Lyft, David Risher said on Friday that “we will significantly reduce the size of the team.”

A man who was shot and crashed his car into a Fort Worth house in July and later died was a Lyft driver who was giving a ride to two people who tried to rob him, according to court documents.

A Maryland man has died after his Lyft driver ordered him out of the car in the middle of a Delaware highway and he was struck by a passing vehicle, police said.