Author: Lyft Official News

Lyft Hires New Head of Data Privacy

As Lyft continues to grow, so does our world-class executive team! We’re excited to announce that Google’s Chrissie Kawasaki has joined Lyft as Head of Data Privacy. In her new role, Chrissie will lead efforts to scale Lyft’s privacy program as the company continues its rapid growth, while ensuring that we always take excellent care… Continue reading Lyft Hires New Head of Data Privacy

Introducing Lyft Pink: A Membership That Unlocks More

Lyft is committed to improving people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. We believe cities should be built for and around people, not cars — that means fundamentally changing the way people think about getting around their cities. We’re shifting from personal car ownership and moving society toward transportation as a service — and Lyft… Continue reading Introducing Lyft Pink: A Membership That Unlocks More

Beyond the Numbers: Lyft’s 2019 Inclusion and Diversity Report

At Lyft, inclusion and diversity are at the core of Lyft’s principles, how we make decisions, how we build our teams, and how we serve our communities. Making sustained progress requires clear strategies, metrics that matter, inclusive culture, and leadership that will hold everyone accountable to do their part to retain, hire, develop, and advance… Continue reading Beyond the Numbers: Lyft’s 2019 Inclusion and Diversity Report

Self-Driving Requires Unprecedented Collaboration

By: Raj Kapoor, Chief Strategy Officer; and Luc Vincent, EVP Autonomous Driving In conversations about self-driving cars, people often talk about the rush to full autonomy like they’re commentators on a race — tracking new developments in technology, analyzing the strategic moves of the companies hurrying to be first. It’s easy to get caught up… Continue reading Self-Driving Requires Unprecedented Collaboration

Reche & Sandalwood Fire Relief in Riverside County

In response to the Reche & Sandalwood Fires in Riverside County, Lyft is committed to doing our part to help those in need. Today, Lyft is activating its Wheels for All program to help those evacuating the fires with free transportation to local shelters.  We’re offering two free rides up to $15 each between now… Continue reading Reche & Sandalwood Fire Relief in Riverside County

Help During the Bay Area Power Outages

In response to the planned Bay Area power outages which are slated to impact hundreds of thousands of residents this week, Lyft is committed to doing our part to help those in need. We’re activating our Wheels For All program to help those in affected areas move to designated resource centers. We’re providing free rides… Continue reading Help During the Bay Area Power Outages

The Ride to Vote: Use Lyft to Exercise Your Right

In the 2015 federal election, 48% of non-voters cited health concerns and the demands of everyday life as a reason for not casting a ballot. Of these non-voters, 12% reported having an illness or disability and 23% reported being too busy.1  To help eliminate these barriers, we’re making election day a little easier by giving… Continue reading The Ride to Vote: Use Lyft to Exercise Your Right

Lyft Level 5 Self-Driving Dataset Competition Now Open

By: Vinay Shet, Director, Product Management The Lyft Level 5 team recently released a self-driving dataset with several tens of thousands of human-labeled 3D annotated frames and a semantic map, along with associated lidar frames and camera imagery. Today, we’re thrilled to launch a Kaggle competition with this dataset on 3D object detection over a… Continue reading Lyft Level 5 Self-Driving Dataset Competition Now Open

Reinforcing our commitment to safety

Today, Lyft is expanding our Community Safety Program to bring riders and drivers greater protection and peace of mind By John Zimmer, Lyft president and co-founder Safety is the cornerstone of all healthy communities, and it’s one of the key values Lyft was founded on. We don’t take lightly any instances where someone’s safety is… Continue reading Reinforcing our commitment to safety