Lyft is scrambling to compete as Uber racks up autonomous vehicle (AV) partners. On Monday, Lyft said it partnered with Japanese conglomerate Marubeni to bring robotaxis to Dallas roads as soon as next year before expanding to “thousands of vehicles” in other cities.<br /> It’s the first fruit from Lyft’s Mobileye partnership, announced in November. TechCrunch notes that the Intel-owned Mobileye’s tech is already available in models from (among others) Audi, Ford, GM, Nissan and Volkswagen. Lyft hasn’t yet said which automaker(s) it’s partnering with for the Dallas rollout. But Lyft executive vice president of driver experience Jeremy Bird told TechCrunch that it’s in talks with “every major autonomous carmaker.”<br /> Marubeni, which owns subsidiaries in in [...]
Lyft and Baidu have shed more light on their plan for a worldwide fleet of autonomous vehicles. After the first rollouts — which are earmarked for Asia and the Middle East later this year — the co [...]
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New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) have settled on new minimum-wage rules for rideshare drivers, Bloomberg reports. Drivers will receive a five percent raise under the new propos [...]