{"id":92806,"date":"2019-06-28T07:02:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T14:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/waymo-starts-self-driving-pick-ups-for-lyft-riders"},"modified":"2019-06-28T07:02:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T14:02:40","slug":"waymo-starts-self-driving-pick-ups-for-lyft-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/waymo-starts-self-driving-pick-ups-for-lyft-riders","title":{"rendered":"Waymo starts self-driving pick-ups for Lyft riders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/waymo-starts-self-driving-pick-ups-for-lyft-riders.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Autonomous driving company <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/google-s-self-driving-car-project\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"google-s-self-driving-car-project\">Waymo<\/a> has launched its tie-in with Lyft, using a \u201chandful\u201d of vehicles to pick up riders in its Phoenix testing zone, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/06\/27\/waymo-makes-autonomous-vehicles-available-to-lyft-riders.html\">CNBC<\/a>. To be eligible, Lyft users requesting a ride have to be doing a trip that both starts and ends in the area of Phoenix that it\u2019s already blocked for for its own autonomous testing.<\/p>\n<p>The number of cars on the road is less than 10, since <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/google-s-self-driving-car-project\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"google-s-self-driving-car-project\">Waymo<\/a> plans to eventually expand to 10 total for this trial but isn\u2019t there yet. Those factors combined mean that the number of people who\u2019ll get this option probably isn\u2019t astronomical, but when they are opted in, they\u2019ll get a chance to decide whether to go with the autonomous option via one of Waymo\u2019s vans (with a safety driver on board) or just stick with a traditional <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/lyft\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"lyft\">Lyft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/05\/07\/waymo-and-lyft-partner-to-scale-self-driving-robotaxi-service-in-phoenix\/\">Waymo and Lyft announced their partnership back in May<\/a>, and the company still plans to continue operating its own Waymo One commercial autonomous ride-hailing service alongside the Lyft team-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autonomous driving company Waymo has launched its tie-in with Lyft, using a \u201chandful\u201d of vehicles to pick up riders in its Phoenix testing zone, per CNBC. To be eligible, Lyft users requesting a ride have to be doing a trip that both starts and ends in the area of Phoenix that it\u2019s already blocked for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}