Lyft’s CEO, David Risher, is apparently not as bullish on robotaxis taking over as many Waymo and Tesla fans are. At the Web Summit event in Lisbon, Portugal, last week, where there were 71,000 attendees and you can imagine many of them were AI fans and robotaxi bulls, Risher argued … [continued]
Waymo keeps adding robotaxi services in more and more cities. Its habit this year has been to partner with Uber in these new markets, making Waymo robotaxi rides available exclusively on the Uber app. However, in Waymo’s newest city, Nashville, the robotaxi company is partnering with Lyft. It makes sense. … [continued]
An Apollo Go robotaxi may have just fallen into a construction pit while in service in China, but the robotaxi business is still continuously expanding, including in Europe. Baidu (“China’s Google”) is the parent company of Apollo Go (“China’s Waymo”). It has done a pretty good job of expanding its … [continued]
While Uber, Lyft, and Waymo have been major brands for app-based taxi service for years, we actually don’t get a lot of broad information or insight on pricing, thanks to flexible demand-based, location-based pricing that is constantly changing. However, an app named Obi that aggregates real-time pricing from different ride-hailing … [continued]
There’s been a lot going on in the advanced driver-assist systems (ADAS) industry in the past couple of weeks. BYD has announced it’s including advanced driver-assist systems in all of its new models for free. Several Chinese automakers are partnering with DeepSeek, which may well have an autonomous driving component … [continued]
Much of the discussion around robotaxis these days is focused on how well they work and how quickly they can scale up and reproduce. However, some of the initial premises on why robotaxis could be good and helpful have probably not gotten enough attention. Bloomberg recently interviewed former director of … [continued]
I just wrote about interesting new research finding that 25% of Americans are completely avoiding Tesla products because of Elon Musk. It’s a big deal, whether many Tesla fans want to acknowledge it or not. In theory, that’s 1.5 million sales rather than 2 million. But that’s not what most … [continued]
A recent article at The Daily Upside tells the story of a new patent Lyft recently filed. It looks a little boring on the surface, but with a little context, it’s actually a pretty important thing. Knowing when a self-driving car is actually ready for the road is going to … [continued]
Lyft continues its work trying to electrify its vast network of driver vehicles. Recall that the company has committed to 100% electrification by 2030. It’s latest effort on this path is that it has partnered with West Coast EV charging network EVCS. And it’s not a nothingburger partnership. Lyft drivers … [continued]
There was a time when combustion-powered cars didn’t make any sense in New York. In fact, back in 1898, when the city’s first cab service got started, EVs ruled the roads. The Electric Carriage and Wagon Company (ECWC) ran from 1898 until 1907, and in that time it got the … [continued]
