Lyft will develop its own self-driving car tech to battle Uber

Lyft is getting into the autonomous driving game too, and opening a research facility in Palo Alto in case you were wondering just how serious the company is. In a post on Medium, the new division’s vice president Luc Vincent writes that ten percent of the company’s engineers are working on the tech and that that number will only increase as the project goes on. “We aren’t thinking of our self-driving division as a side project,” he told the New York Times. “It’s core to our business.”

“Every day, there are over one million rides completed on our network in over 350 cities,” Vincent says. “This translates into tens of millions of miles on a daily basis.” He further says that the company is already using said data to figure out what’s going on.

The company’s Open Platform Initiative might be the key differentiator versus Uber’s autonomous ambitions. It’s partnering with General Motors, Land Rover, Jaguar, nuTonomy and Waymo to share its driving data in an effort to rapidly accelerate the machine learning needed to keep self-driving cars on the road.

Source: Medium

Source: Engadget
Lyft will develop its own self-driving car tech to battle Uber

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