Lyft aims for a 2026 Dallas launch of its first Mobileye robotaxis

Lyft is scrambling to vie arsenic Uber racks up autonomous conveyance (AV) partners. On Monday, Lyft said it partnered with Japanese conglomerate Marubeni to bring robotaxis to Dallas roads arsenic soon arsenic adjacent twelvemonth earlier expanding to “thousands of vehicles” successful different cities.

It’s the archetypal effect from Lyft’s Mobileye partnership, announced successful November. TechCrunch notes that the Intel-owned Mobileye’s tech is already disposable successful models from (among others) Audi, Ford, GM, Nissan and Volkswagen. Lyft hasn’t yet said which automaker(s) it’s partnering with for the Dallas rollout. But Lyft enforcement vice president of operator acquisition Jeremy Bird told TechCrunch that it’s successful talks with “every large autonomous carmaker.”

Marubeni, which owns subsidiaries successful industries ranging from cereal to fossil fuels (fortunately, not successful the aforesaid product), owns and manages fleets with implicit 900,000 vehicles crossed the globe. The company’s Mobileye-equipped robotaxis volition beryllium disposable for folks successful Dallas to hail done the Lyft app aft the programme launches.

Although the Dallas motorboat volition service arsenic Lyft’s aviator programme for Mobileye AVs, it whitethorn not extremity up being the company’s adjacent robotaxi rollout. Last year, it besides partnered with AV institution May Mobility and aims to bring robotaxis with its tech to Atlanta sometime successful 2025.

The unit is connected Lyft to support up, arsenic Uber has inked deals with a agelong database of companies successful the AV space, including Avride, Aurora Innovation, Nuro, Waabi and Wayve. Uber and Alphabet’s Waymo besides plan to motorboat AV fleets successful Austin and Atlanta aboriginal this year. (The waitlist is already open.) Tesla has besides said it plans to introduce its archetypal autonomous conveyance service successful Austin this June.

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