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By Lisa Fickenscher and Caitlin McCormack

Food delivery drivers on Friday admitted low tips and a lack of transparency from “greedy apps” has pushed them to make reckless decisions on Big Apple roads during a heated City Council hearing on Friday.

“We need protection against these greedy apps that care more about their profits than our safety,” Doordash deliveryman Antonio Solis told the Committee on Consumer and Worker Protections.

Solis’ testimony came as representatives from Doordash, UberEats and Grubhub were grilled at City Hall during the three-hour hearing.

The committee introduced seven bills that focused on delivery safety and payment, specifically addressing issues with gratuity and paycheck breakdowns for employees.

Doordash and UberEats changed when they prompt customers to leave a tip after last year’s minimum wage laws for delivery workers were nearly tripled. Customers are given the option to leave a tip after they place their order — a move that has cost delivery workers $85 million in lost gratuities, City Council member Shaun Abreu said.

He proposed legislation that would force the apps to move the prompt back to when the order is placed.

Abreu also took aim at how the apps disclose information about their pay rates, which changed after the minimum wage law went into effect April 1.

“We want to know how people’s pay is being calculated,” Abreu said. “The fact that we are fighting these apps on this is insane.”