Tensor's Robocar Will Be 'lyft-ready' Out Of The Factory

Lyft is partnering pinch San Jose-based Tensor Auto. Lyft says it has reserved "hundreds" of Tensor robotaxis and will run its ain fleet. The different portion of nan partnership: Tensor will make its Robocar "Lyft-ready" consecutive retired of nan factory.

Shipping nan Robocar pinch Lyft's level will let a futuristic shape of passive income for owners successful regions pinch level 4 regulatory approval. "Traditional car ownership intends a conveyance loses worth arsenic it sits idle astir of nan time," nan companies wrote successful a property release. "Tensor Robocars flip this model, turning individual luxury vehicles into productive assets that tin make income astir nan clock."

It's akin to what Tesla plans to do pinch its yet-to-be-shipped Cybercab. Lyft's rival Uber announced a akin scheme successful July, involving 20,000 Lucid EVs.

Tensor plans to present its first Robocars by nan extremity of 2026. The institution says nan "Lyft-ready" autonomous conveyance (AV) will see complete 100 sensors. (That includes 37 cameras, 5 lidars, and 11 radars.) Eight NVIDIA chips, based connected Blackwell GPU architecture, thief it construe sensor data. Tensor says nan machine is tin of 8,000 trillion operations per second.

This is acold from Lyft's first AV partnership. Among others, it teamed up past period pinch May Mobility to launch an autonomous fleet successful Atlanta. Lyft besides plans to match users pinch Waymo rides successful Nashville starting adjacent year. However, Bloomberg notes that nan Tensor business is Lyft's first wherever it will acquisition its ain AV fleet.

Tensor spun retired of nan Chinese robotaxi institution AutoX. The institution says it divested and discontinued its China operations to attraction exclusively connected nan US-based Tensor. The Robocar will beryllium produced successful Vietnam done a business pinch VinFast.