Lyft Plans Self-Driving Taxi Fleet By 2017 (bgr.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Lyft hopes to launch a self-driving fleet of taxis as soon as next year, according to reports, arriving in the market years before Apple and Google. "There will still be a human 'driver' in the cars, as mandated by law for the time being," writes BGR, adding that eventually the driver will become obsolete. "But said human will be there solely in the event of a malfunction. Otherwise, Lyft's new vehicles will drive themselves."
Meanwhile, Fortune writes that most analysts believe it will be four years before Apple gets a car on the road, though they're moving in that direction and even hired a Tesla executive last month. They add that both Apple and Google are now eyeing at least 400,000 square feet of Bay Area real estate to use in the development of their self-driving fleets.

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Jesus fuck grow up dorks.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Self-driving" crap is not beyond prototype stage in very specific easy-to-handle road environments where results are reported by the businesses that stand to gain from it.

The moment even one independently performed and reported test is carried out negotiating the streets of New York, London, Manila and a snowy mountain in the north of Madrid, I'll start to take this shit seriously. Until then, it's just another case of the Press Release replacing the Journalist.

Re:Jesus fuck grow up dorks.

[fluffernutter]

No.. If I am going to be sending a 2000 lb machine out into the world without a driver and possibly with my family in it; it needs to be perfect. If I am the one in a million who has their family injured because the AI got confused, I'm not going to be sitting around going "Oh well I probably would have been more dangerous". As long as there is a chance for me to be sitting around regretting putting my family in an AI car, I don't see the benefit of one.