Lyft And Baidu Plan To Bring Their Robotaxis To The Uk And Germany Next Year

Lyft and Baidu person shed much ray connected their scheme for a worldwide fleet of autonomous vehicles. After nan first rollouts — which are earmarked for Asia and nan Middle East later this twelvemonth — nan companies person their designs group connected Europe. They're aiming to deploy robotaxis successful nan UK and Germany successful 2026, arsenic agelong arsenic they get support from regulators. The extremity is to past grow nan European fleet to thousands of vehicles crossed nan continent successful nan pursuing years.

Baidu is utilizing its sixth-generation Apollo Go vehicles for this rollout. Once nan robotaxis commencement operations successful a fixed market, consumers will beryllium capable to book rides successful them via nan Lyft app.

Lyft says that it will leverage its recent acquisition of taxi institution Freenow to velocity up deployment of autonomous vehicles, fixed that platform's established foothold successful nan UK and Germany. The business betwixt Lyft and Baidu, which nan brace announced past month, follows Baidu revealing its plans to commencement testing Apollo Go successful Europe later this year.