Lyft, Mobile-powerful robotaxis ‘2026 is as soon as possible’ will start with Dallas

Ride-Hail Giant Lyft plans to bring fully autonomous robotaks equipped by MobileEye, as the application “2026”, learned at TechCrunch to watch with more market.

News Lyft Fourth quarter and full 2024 earnings report comes the day before sharing and WAYMO’nun jointly exceeds the commercial Robotaxi service Uber in Austin And, then, Atlanta. Tesla also shared plans to start an autonomous walking operation Austin in June.

Marubeni, a Japanese conglomer, which has a Japanese conglomer, which has a fleet management experience, will be able to find mobile vehicles that will appear in the walking application of LYFT. Lyft Started Still, Mobile’s OEM partner for advanced driver help technology has not yet revealed already integrated Audi, Volkswagen, Nissan, Ford, General Motors and more vehicles.

Lyft, Jeremy Bird, who has launched the vehicle in Dallas, but the LYFT presides, TechCrunch’s LYFT’s LYFT said that thousands of vehicles were scale in many cities.

Marubeni feels like a little sequitur for Lyft; The company has a subsidiary in almost every industry from food and real estate to agriculture and energy, but there is no great presence in walking or autonomous vehicles.

It began to start Marubeni in the last few years. In 2021 Company Mobile with Mobile And the transit planning application is Moovit to start a mobility service required in Japan. TechCrunch prepared to learn whether this cooperation is still active.

Mobileye served as an intermediary between Lyft and Marubeni. It is important to find a partner to have the fleet of vehicles for the LYFT’s active and light work model.

“There is a connection with MobileEye technology and OEMS and we have a platform, so it is the property of the fleet that owns a large missing piece,” Bird Techcrunch. “And whenever the fleet management and resources and resources and resources and resources are, when you are ready to be the first Mover changing the game for us.”

Marubeni will use LYFT’s FlexDrive service to help handle the fleet and hold its active use. FlexDrive is LYFT service to unite drivers who do not own vehicles with rental vehicles. The bird will take a long way to support the future autonomous walks to have Lyft’s charging, cleaning and storage, as well as real estate for transactions.

The bird noted that LYFT is in talks on bringing each major autonomy player to the platform. Lyft probably wants to make these conversations in the gear as his main opponent raised his partnership with other AV companies. In addition to the Waymo, they announced the deals with Uber Boot, Euride, Serve robotics, Crackdown, Aurora Innovation, Guarand others.

Outside the Mobileee Deal, Lyft announced that he just plans to start AVS Atlanta Moltony this year.

LYFT’s slow roll towards the autonomy is not for the lack of attempts. The company has a share of bad luck in AV Arena.

Lyft was previously with a human security driver behind the wheel, but in Las Vegas, which is in the Las Vegas, which is in advance with the ARGO AI to launch Robotaxi services in Las Vegas, but the plan was to go without a full driver. Then Motivally stopped this partnership In May to cut the workforceand Argo AI closed in 2022. Lyft had a share in Argo and received Hit $ 135.7 million when the company was folded.

Earlier, Lyft tried to develop autonomous vehicle technology at home. Uber did too. They both sold their events; Uber aurora In December 2020 and Lyft to Toyota’s woven planet In April 2021.

The bird said Uber’s AVB Partnership “urgent” said Uber’s “urgent”, but said that the placement of robotaxis will not be concentrated with only one company.

He said that the goal of LYFT is to build a strong partnership with the companies engaged in the autonomous vehicle, which adapted to the business model of both technological and LYFT’s active light.

“The rest of the value chain is the place where we really want to play a role, and this is the bird, in the market management, demand and market in the market.”