Lyft is starting a new era of autonomous driving: The ride-sharing company has announced three promising partnerships in the field of self-driving cars.
With May Mobility, Mobileye and Nexar wants Lyft expand its platform for autonomous mobility and introduce the first self-driving vehicles as early as 2025 Atlanta insert. The group wants to strengthen its position in the growing market for autonomous driving and adapt its ride-sharing offering to the mobility of the future. It remains to be seen whether Lyft can overtake its competitor Uber – the competition for dominance has heralded a new round.
Lyft announced the three new partnerships to move into the autonomous vehicle space. On the one hand, Lyft will work with the startup May Mobility to use autonomous vehicles in its ridesharing offer in Atlanta from 2025. On the other hand, Lyft is partnering with Mobileye, a subsidiary of Intel, are working together to integrate vehicles with Mobileye’s autonomous technology into the Lyft network. Finally, a data partnership was agreed with the company Nexar to use insights from their dashcam data to develop autonomous vehicle systems.
Lyft is trying to compete with this Above to catch up, which has already entered into numerous partnerships with leading companies in the autonomy industry. The collaborations are intended to help Lyft strengthen its position in the emerging self-driving car market and create new mobility offerings for consumers. The partnerships will enable Lyft to connect its platform with autonomous vehicles from various providers, expanding the reach and efficiency of its ridesharing services.