Lyft wants people to be hailing fully driverless cars on its app by 2023


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  • Thursday, 17 Dec 2020

The Lyft partnership expands its 2018 arrangement with Aptiv, and later Motional, running paid self-driving taxi pilot rides in Las Vegas. But unlike those tests, the next iteration of the project will operate in more complicated urban environments and will include no human drivers in the cars at all, the companies said. — Los Angeles Times/TNS

Lyft Inc expects customers will be able to use its app to hail cars without drivers starting in 2023, the company said Wednesday. The self-driving rides will be powered by Motional Inc, an autonomous driving joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv Plc.

The announcement comes the week after Lyft’s larger rival, Uber Technologies Inc, sold its self-driving car unit to startup Aurora Innovation Inc, cutting loose the ambitious, but money-losing division as it focuses on turning a quarterly adjusted profit by the end of next year.

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