{"id":3471,"date":"2017-05-14T20:53:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T03:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2017-05-14T20:53:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T03:53:09","slug":"lyft-waymo-team-self-driving-cars-amid-uber-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=3471","title":{"rendered":"Lyft and Waymo to team up on self-driving cars amid Uber controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\">Lyft and Waymo are working together on self-driving car technology, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/14\/technology\/lyft-waymo-self-driving-cars.html?referer=https:\/\/t.co\/w6KXB3Ebu9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new deal first reported by the New York Times<\/a> on Sunday. The deal has been confirmed by both parties, and will see Google\u2019s former self-driving car unit work together with the ride-hailing company on efforts to introduce self-driving to the general population via fleet services.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\">Waymo just launched a self-driving technology public pilot in Arizona, where its Chrysler Pacifica minivans equipped with in-house developed self-driving tech will be picking up families on-demand, with applications open to anyone working in the city. Waymo\u2019s service is limited to begin with, but bringing a partner like Lyft into the mix will likely help it build out the side of the business that requires demand modeling, efficient routing and more.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an interesting partnership because it\u2019s another piece of the puzzle in addition to Waymo\u2019s existing tie-ups with automakers, including Chrysler, and a pending an agreement with Honda. Waymo is positioning itself as the technology partner on the autonomy side, an essential service provider but not necessarily a player interested in owning the whole stack. Lyft offers another piece of the puzzle, which could ultimately benefit Waymo\u2019s existing automaker partners, and help it attract more, too.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Uber is also making similar partnerships, with an open program for OEs, the first of which is Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler. Lyft is different, however, in that it has not expressed any interest in making its own self-driving tech in-house, but has instead formed a previously announced partnership with GM, which is likely to result in a pilot of autonomous tech fleet deployment with GM-owned Cruise.<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest move that indicates Waymo might be closer to commercializing its technology than many may have thought. The Alphabet-owned company is arguably the player in the space with the most experience, with nearly a decade of development work and actual driving experience with autonomous car tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyft and Waymo are working together on self-driving car technology, with a new deal first reported by the New York Times on Sunday. The deal has been confirmed by both parties, and will see Google\u2019s former self-driving car unit work together with the ride-hailing company on efforts to introduce self-driving to the general population via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-cars","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}