GM, Lyft Working Toward Creating Autonomous Vehicle Ride-Sharing Network (computerworld.com)

Lucas123 writes: GM today announced a short-term vehicle rental program exclusive to the Lyft ride-sharing service, but it also made clear a longer-term goal to create a fleet of autonomous vehicles that could be summoned by Lyft's automated ride matching mobile app. The new Express Drive rental program will make cars available to Lyft drivers starting at $99, a price that includes insurance and vehicle maintenance. The new rental program comes just two months after GM struck a strategic partnership with Lyft to develop autonomous vehicles and invested $500 million as part of Lyft's $1 billion Series F funding round. More than 400 million people will rely on robotic car sharing by 2030, according to a new report by ABI Research. "We see the future of personal mobility as connected, seamless and autonomous," GM president Dan Ammann said. "With GM and Lyft working together, we believe we can successfully implement this vision more rapidly."

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More disruptive than UBER

[knorthern knight]

With UBER, taxi companies are fighting back by lobbying cities against "unlicenced taxis". A self-driving car can...
* drive from a parking lot to pick you up at location X... JUST LIKE A TAXI
* drive you over to location Y and drop you off... JUST LIKE A TAXI

But the corporation will argue that it's actually a car rental business, renting the car to you on an hourly+milage basis, sorta like Zip-Car http://www.zipcar.com/

Re:More disruptive than UBER

[0100010001010011]

Finally, someone sees the long game. Uber is just in data collection mode right now.

Uber did this first actually.

[brunes69]

Uber has a standing order for 500,000 autonomous Teslas in 2020.

http://www.greencarreports.com...

Please stop calling it "ride sharing"

[dave420]

If the driver was not already going to the destination, calling it "ride sharing" is like calling a restaurant "meal sharing".