
With much bad blood between Alphabet’s self driving unit Waymo and Uber as on going lawsuits add to Uber’s list of troubles for the year, Waymo turns to Lyft for a partnership in launching pilots of self driving vehicles.
Not much details are revealed about the agreement.
With the auto and tech industries rushing to meet the 2020 deadline of putting fully autonomous vehicles on the road, many tech and automobile companies are working together to realise this capability and bring the technology to consumers.
Uber is the biggest ride hailing service in US, followed by Lyft. Uber has been working on their own self driving tech and has recently been at odds legally with Waymo. Unlike Uber, Lyft does not have their own unit that develops on self driving technology.
According to reports, Lyft said the deal is non exclusive, and will allow it to continue a self-driving partnership with U.S. automaker General Motors, which is a Lyft investor.
GM plans to deploy thousands of self-driving electric cars in test fleets partnering with Lyft beginning 2018, according to Reuters.



