Lyft Launches Autonomous Fleet With May Mobility In Atlanta

Lyft and May Mobility have teamed up to motorboat a fleet of autonomous vehicles successful Atlanta. It's a aviator program, truthful it's presently only disposable to Lyft riders successful nan area of midtown Atlanta. The companies committedness a "measured, safety-first approach" pinch this rollout.

The fleet consists of hybrid-electric Toyota Sienna Autono-MaaS vehicles equipped pinch May Mobility’s self-driving technology. Lyft and May Mobility announced this business past year, but Atlanta is nan first metropolis to get a fleet of self-driving vehicles.

The rides will beryllium afloat autonomous, but each conveyance will characteristic a quality conscionable successful lawsuit thing goes wrong. These standby operators are trained to return nan instrumentality if needed. The companies haven't announced a timeframe for erstwhile these standby operators will nary longer beryllium required.

Customers will person entree to somesthesia controls, which is nice. However, hailing 1 of these cars is thing of a crap shoot. You person to beryllium successful nan work area, usage nan app and dream for nan best. Lyft and May Mobility opportunity they will summation nan number of disposable vehicles and grow work hours successful nan "months ahead."

This is May Mobility's 2nd motorboat successful Georgia, arsenic it operates a fleet of driverless vehicles successful nan Atlanta suburb of Peachtree Corners. Lyft's superior rival Uber has besides been making superior moves successful this space. The institution has entered into a business pinch Lucid to create a monolithic fleet of 20,000 autonomous vehicles. It besides has plans to launch self-driving aviator programs throughout nan globe.