
(FILES): This file photo taken on March 10, 2016 shows a man checking a vehicle at the first of Uber's 'Work On Demand' recruitment events where they hope to sign 12, 000 new driver-partners, in South Los Angeles Ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft are set to quit the Texas city of Austin after voters said fingerprinting should be part of driver background checks, reports said. The companies had poured $8.6 million into a campaign to keep fingerprinting, which can be expensive and time-consuming, out of driver checks. The vote came after the City Council passed an ordinance in December that, among other rules for ride-sharing companies, required their drivers to undergo fingerprint-based background checks by February 1, 2017. Uber and Lyft announced after the results of Saturday's vote that they were set to suspend operations in Austin, the capital city of Texas, on the morning of May 9, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / Mark Ralston
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