Rideshare apps in Austin sputter, frustrating customers on SXSW’s first Saturday night

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Some rideshare service apps in Austin experienced outages Saturday night, leaving many South by Southwest attendees and other Saturday night revelers without a lift for hours.
Uber and Lyft left Austin last May after voters approved stricter requirements for drivers that the companies did not like.
Since then, more than a half dozen companies started to fill the gap left behind — including Ride Austin and Fasten.
Ride Austin posted a statement online that its servers