Automotive: Lyft moves to open self-driving tech

Self-driving vehicle platform to be open to use by other companies

SAN FRANCISCO: US ride-share start-up Lyft on Friday dedicated a new team focused on speeding up its effort to create a self-driving vehicle platform, which would be open to use by other companies. The San Francisco based company earlier this year announced what it billed as the world’s first open self-driving platform, inviting car manufacturers and rival autonomous navigation systems to plug into the network. “In the years ahead, we will continue to bring the world’s leading automotive and technology companies onto this single platform to serve a nationwide passenger network,” Lyft vice president of engineering and former Google executive Luc Vincent said in an online post. Lyft is devoting an in-house division to self-driving technology, according to Vincent. The team will be based in a Silicon Valley facility called “Level 5 Engineering Center” and its ranks will grow in coming months, the company said.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 23^rd, 2017.

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