Uber in hot seat with California regulators over drunk drivers

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California regulators are recommending that Uber pay a $1.13 million fine for not investigating rider complaints that drivers were working intoxicated.

A division of the California Public Utilities Commission said Uber breached (PDF) so-called "zero-tolerance" guidelines demanding that transportation companies promptly investigate drunken-driving complaints consumers lodge with those companies. These types of companies generally are required to suspend suspect drivers when a complaint is lodged pending the outcome of an internal investigation.

One-fourth-about 147,000 drivers-of Uber's US workforce operates in California.

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