While Uber plans to launch unmanned taxis by 2020, other companies also do not sit idle. Service Lyft, one of Uber's largest competitors, announced that it will soon acquire its own unmanned vehicles. To do this, the company signed a contract with a startup Drive.ai, specializing in the development of software for autopilots.
The first cars with autopilot will start carrying passengers from San Francisco, but you should not count on a massive transfer of Lyft to unmanned vehicles - as long as there are only a few of them. It is possible to order an unmanned taxi through the application, but there are also nuances here: in case something goes wrong, the driver will still sit in the cabin, so that lovers to chat with the taxi drivers may not be in vain to get upset ahead of time.
In addition, company representatives do not plan to completely switch to autonomous cars in the future, because taxi service is not only trips from point A to point B, the human factor is also important here. The driver can do many things that are not available for artificial intelligence or autopilot.
However, Lyft collaborates with developers of autopilots and autonomous driving maps. In July of this year, the company began working with a startup Lvl5. Lyft drivers will shoot the road on the DVRs, and Lvl5 developers will use the videos taken by drivers to create their own three-dimensional maps.
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