Subsidiary of Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car division
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Subsidiary of Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car division
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Re: Subsidiary of Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car division
#2Funny in hindsight from 2016: "Lyft's president says 'majority' of rides will be in self-driving cars by 2021"
https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/18/12944506/lyft-self-drivin...
https://medium.com/@johnzimmer/the-third-transportation-revo...
Re: Subsidiary of Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car division
#3Well...
"In December 2020, Lyft announced that it will launch a multi-city U.S. robotaxi service in 2023 with Motional."
https://www.reuters.com/article/autos-selfdriving-lyft-idUSK...
Re: Subsidiary of Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car division
#4Did not know Lyft had a self-driving car initiative. Was that well known? Did they, like Uber, sink tons of money into it before bailing?
Re: Subsidiary of Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car division
#5Funny in hindsight from 2016: "Lyft's president says 'majority' of rides will be in self-driving cars by 2021" https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/18/12944506/lyft-self-drivin... https://medium.com/@johnzimmer/the-third-transportation-revo...
I wonder if it’s possible that this is true in some restricted area where companies are heavily testing their self-driving cars, and COVID reduced the amount of driving people do.
Re: Subsidiary of Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car division
#6Did not know Lyft had a self-driving car initiative. Was that well known? Did they, like Uber, sink tons of money into it before bailing?
Of course, yes and yes. The business model is complete nonsense otherwise.
Re: Subsidiary of Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car division
#7Anyone hawking FSD is a stock promoter (liar). Uber/Tesla/Lyft. Elon Musk claims Tesla FSD will be L5 by end of 2021, but they recently filed a document with the CA DMV stating Tesla FSD is L2 automated.
Which one do you think is more realistic, staying L2 by EOY 2021, or magically leaping forward to L5 FSD in 8 months?
The only company working on self-driving that I believe when they issue press releases is Waymo, because Google isn’t trying to juice their stock price all the damn time, and they have operable robotaxis in AZ. I don’t think Waymo claims L5 capability either.
Re: Subsidiary of Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car division
#8Funny in hindsight from 2016: "Lyft's president says 'majority' of rides will be in self-driving cars by 2021" https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/18/12944506/lyft-self-drivin... https://medium.com/@johnzimmer/the-third-transportation-revo...
nothing new here, AI has been "5 years away" since the 1950s
Re: Subsidiary of Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car division
#9Anyone hawking FSD is a stock promoter (liar). Uber/Tesla/Lyft. Elon Musk claims Tesla FSD will be L5 by end of 2021, but they recently filed a document with the CA DMV stating Tesla FSD is L2 automated. Which one do you think is more realistic, staying L2 by EOY 2021, or magically leaping forward to L5 FSD in 8 months? The only company working on self-driving that I believe when they issue press releases is Waymo, b…
It's those edge cases that make me think real FSD (vehicles with no steering wheels) is a decade-timescale problem.
Figure out 99.9% of driving, but otherwise take a family off a bridge when the sun is blinding the camera? Still need a steering wheel.
Re: Subsidiary of Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car division
#10100m a year, 0 roi expense gone. Also no more shared rides due to COVID (which I expect will never come back to Uber or Lyft since they were gigantic money sinks). Assuming ridership is bouncing back from COVID I wouldn't be surprised if their first profitable quarter was this year.