Lyft: ‘Tis The Season To Earn (Lots Of) Miles With Delta

Sometimes giving is the best gift. But sometimes it’s nice to get stuff.  We’ve teamed up with Delta® to make your holiday travel more rewarding. When you link your SkyMiles® account at delta.com/lyftholiday between Dec. 9 and Jan. 2, you’ll get 10 miles for every $1* you spend on Lyft rides to or from US… Continue reading Lyft: ‘Tis The Season To Earn (Lots Of) Miles With Delta

Learn all 99 security tools

Safety is a priority for 99 before, during and after races. That’s why the company continually invests in preventive systems, protection tools and humanized care for passengers and drivers. Features include artificial intelligence to map and avoid risks before races; tools such as security cameras and route sharing available along the way; and a 24-hour… Continue reading Learn all 99 security tools

Lyft: Leveraging Early Sensor Fusion for Safer Autonomous Vehicles

By: Interns Eric Vincent¹ and Kanaad Parvate², with support from Andrew Zhong, Lars Schnyder, Kiril Vidimce, Lei Zhang, and Ashesh Jain from our Perception Team Accurate perception to enable safe autonomy In order to safely navigate the world, an autonomous vehicle (AV) needs to accurately perceive the objects that surround it. This includes dynamic objects such… Continue reading Lyft: Leveraging Early Sensor Fusion for Safer Autonomous Vehicles

Grab Launches Asia’s First Numberless Card

Grab announced the launch of GrabPay Card, Asia’s first numberless card that offers users unparalleled card security, access to an expanded rewards ecosystem and hassle-free Grab payments integration in order to bring cashless convenience to millions in Southeast Asia. The GrabPay Card has no numbers on the physical card, offering users exceptional security when they… Continue reading Grab Launches Asia’s First Numberless Card

A Tour through openpilot

A Tour Through openpilot This document is mostly written for internal consumption, but I figured, why not make it public? openpilot is our open source ADAS system that anyone can contribute to. We’ll start at the hardware and work our way up. Note: in the 0.6 series of openpilot, camerad, modeld, and monitoringd all are combined… Continue reading A Tour through openpilot

The fundamental ridesharing diagram

Coauthored with Marco Laumanns On-demand mobility services have proliferated in recent years. If properly designed, they can be instrumental in revolutionizing public transportation by allowing the movement of more people while also reducing the fleet size and the distance driven. Bestmile’s white paper and technical report on service design offer a detailed description of the science… Continue reading The fundamental ridesharing diagram

Express Travel with Citymapper Pass

The ultimate public transport payment experience is here As of 2nd Dec, Express Travel with Apple Pay is active in London on all Transport for London’s stations and buses, and usable with Citymapper Pass. We’ve been waiting a long time for this ultimate user experience, where a mobile device and app can support the entire end-to-end… Continue reading Express Travel with Citymapper Pass

Lyft: Lyft Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer to Keynote at the Credit Suisse 23rd Annual Technology Conference

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 02, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lyft, Inc. (Nasdaq:LYFT) announced today that Logan Green, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, will keynote at the Credit Suisse 23rd Annual Technology Conference on Wednesday, December 4, 2019.  Mr. Green is scheduled to appear at 1:40 p.m. Eastern Time. A live webcast of the event will be… Continue reading Lyft: Lyft Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer to Keynote at the Credit Suisse 23rd Annual Technology Conference

99 launches face recognition for 100% of drivers

Technology’s goal is to further enhance the safety of the app’s passengers and drivers 99, the urban transport application that integrates the global company DiDi Chuxing, launched on October 13, 100% of drivers, a facial recognition tool to further enhance the safety of platform races. The system automatically identifies drivers’ faces before they connect to… Continue reading 99 launches face recognition for 100% of drivers