SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2019. Financial Highlights for Fourth Quarter 2019 Gross Bookings grew $4.0 billion year-over-year to $18.1 billion, representing 28% year-over-year growth, or 30% on a constant currency basis, with Rides and Eats growing 20% and… Continue reading Uber: Uber Announces Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2019
Category: Mobility Companies
Lyft: Generalization in Autonomous Vehicle Development
By: Emil Praun, Principal Engineer and Michael Benisch, Engineering Director A common challenge when deciding which autonomous problems to solve first is how to balance breadth versus depth. Going broad means expanding the Operational Design Domain (ODD) of situations that an autonomous vehicle (AV) can handle. Example situations include operating on highways and city streets,… Continue reading Lyft: Generalization in Autonomous Vehicle Development
Lyft: Testing Self-Driving Rides With Employees
by Luc Vincent, EVP of Autonomous Technology Since day one, Lyft’s mission has been to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. We started by innovating ways for people to get around — first enabling neighbors to share car rides, then offering shared bikes and scooters. Over the last two and a half years, we’ve made… Continue reading Lyft: Testing Self-Driving Rides With Employees
Lyft: Lyft Driver Advisory Council (DAC) Explained
Started in 2016, the Driver Advisory Council (DAC) program brings driver feedback directly to Lyft and helps the team understand drivers’ experiences better. In 2019, the program grew from 10 national council members to over 200 members across the US and Canada. And on January 15, 2020, over 100 new DAC members joined the ranks. … Continue reading Lyft: Lyft Driver Advisory Council (DAC) Explained
Communauto welcomes the initiative of the City of Calgary to bring back free-floating carsharing
Calgary, January 29, 2020 – Communauto, the largest carsharing organization in Canada and the first to be born in North America, welcomes the City of Calgary’s updated Carshare Parking Policies that have been approved today by their Standing Policy Committee on Transportation and Transit. “This is a first and encouraging step towards us bringing a… Continue reading Communauto welcomes the initiative of the City of Calgary to bring back free-floating carsharing
January 31, 2020 ViaVan and Milton Keynes Council launch innovate shared ride program Partners seek to establish electric, on-demand shared …
January 31, 2020 ViaVan and Milton Keynes Council launch innovate shared ride program Partners seek to establish electric, on-demand shared rides as a complement to existing public transit 31 January 2020 (Milton Keynes)– Electric powered shared rides could be the way forward to help people get around the borough of Milton Keynes. Councillor Martin Gowans,… Continue reading January 31, 2020 ViaVan and Milton Keynes Council launch innovate shared ride program Partners seek to establish electric, on-demand shared …
January 28, 2020 Designing an on-demand mobility service riders love
January 28, 2020 Designing an on-demand mobility service riders love The world is entering the golden age of embracing Mobility as a Service (MaaS), with cities around the globe turning to shared bikes, scooters, and on-demand vehicles to move around their communities. Perhaps one of the biggest trends in MaaS, however, is the dramatic adoption… Continue reading January 28, 2020 Designing an on-demand mobility service riders love
RESTful error handling with Akka HTTP and the library “endpoints”
RESTful services represent both technical errors and business errors at the same level and this raises some challenges to backend engineers. What we call “technical” errors here are errors returned by the server in case of an unexpected problem on the server or in case of mismatch between the format of request that the server… Continue reading RESTful error handling with Akka HTTP and the library “endpoints”
A 2020 Theme: Quality
The comma two was a huge success, comma is now a profitable company! We’ve now made more money this January than we made in all of Q1 last year. #commatwo #profitable #hypergrowth — @comma_ai This was a big milestone for us. Of course, the work is not close to over. Our mission is: To solve self driving… Continue reading A 2020 Theme: Quality
Lyft: Self-Driving Research in Review: NeurIPS 2019
By: Peter Ondruska, Head of AV Research and Vladimir Iglovikov, Software Engineer Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) is one of the largest machine learning conferences in the world. There’s such high interest in attending that tickets are distributed through a lottery system! If you weren’t able to make it, you’re in luck. We’ve collected the most relevant… Continue reading Lyft: Self-Driving Research in Review: NeurIPS 2019