Lyft rushes to compete while Uber accumulates autonomous vehicle partners (AV). Lyft said on Monday that he joined the Marubeni Japanese conglomerate to bring Robotaxie to Dallas Roads next year before expanding “thousands of vehicles” in other cities.
It is the first fruit of Lyft’s Mobileye partnership, announced in November. Techcrunch notes That Intel technology, belonging to Mobileye, is already available in models of (among others) Audi, Ford, GM, Nissan and Volkswagen. Lyft has not yet told which car manufacturer with which he joins forces for the deployment of Dallas. But Lyft’s executive vice-president of driver’s experience Jeremy Bird said Techcrunch Whether in talks with “each autonomous car manufacturer”.
Marubeni, who has subsidiaries in industries ranging from cereals to fossil fuels (fortunately, not in the same product), has and manages fleets with more than 900,000 vehicles around the world. Robotaxy equipped with mobilee of the company will be available for Dallas people to set up the LYFT application after the program launch.
Although the launch of Dallas will serve a Lyft pilot program for Mobileye Avs, it may not end up being the next deployment of the company’s Robotaxi. Last year, he also joined forces with Av Company May Mobility and aims to bring a robotaxis with his technology in Atlanta in 2025.
The pressure is on Lyft to follow, because Uber has signed agreements with a long list of companies in the AV space, notably Avride, Aurora Innovation, Nuro, Waabi and Wayve. Waymo d’Uber and Alphabet also plans to launch the AV fleets in Austin and Atlanta at the start of this year. (The waiting list is already open.) Tesla has also said that it was planning to introduce its first autonomous vehicle service in Austin in June.
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