Playing Catch-Up to Uber on Self-Driving, Lyft Teams Up With Partners -<br />By MIKE ISAACJUNE 6, 2017<br />SAN FRANCISCO — Uber is spending millions of dollars to make self-driving cars on its ride-hailing network a reality.<br />Uber, for example, has hundreds of engineers in Pittsburgh, San Francisco<br />and Toronto working on its self-driving technology, and it has outfitted Volvos and Ford Fusion vehicles with cameras, lasers and other hardware for research purposes.<br />“And since it’s very early in the development life cycle of autonomous vehicles, we’ll explore many partnerships to learn with<br />and from partners to help figure out what passengers want.”<br />The agreement is part of Lyft’s broader move into autonomous car-sharing.<br />Lyft on Tuesday announced an agreement with nuTonomy, a self-driving car start-up, to eventually<br />bring thousands of nuTonomy’s autonomous vehicles to Lyft’s ride-hailing network.
