Playing Catch-Up to Uber on Self-Driving, Lyft Teams Up With Partners -
By MIKE ISAACJUNE 6, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — Uber is spending millions of dollars to make self-driving cars on its ride-hailing network a reality.
Uber, for example, has hundreds of engineers in Pittsburgh, San Francisco
and Toronto working on its self-driving technology, and it has outfitted Volvos and Ford Fusion vehicles with cameras, lasers and other hardware for research purposes.
“And since it’s very early in the development life cycle of autonomous vehicles, we’ll explore many partnerships to learn with
and from partners to help figure out what passengers want.”
The agreement is part of Lyft’s broader move into autonomous car-sharing.
Lyft on Tuesday announced an agreement with nuTonomy, a self-driving car start-up, to eventually
bring thousands of nuTonomy’s autonomous vehicles to Lyft’s ride-hailing network.