Lyft is opening a Palo Alto office to work on Level 5 autonomous. https://medium.com/@lvincent/introducing-level-5-and-our-self-driving-team-705ef8989f03 If you have deep computer vision, SLAM, localization, planning experience please PM me. If you have other skills like DS, eng, PM, Lyft is actively hiring. Please PM me. We are taking off.
A bit late to the game?
Are they really late when there isn't a dominant player yet? From what I can tell, Uber always goes crashing into something with force burning investor money without properly evaluating if the market is ready. Lyft waits until they are sure they are ready and strategically approaches. Not to mention their savings once Uber has spent a lot of money fighting politics. I feel like if I were to invest, I would choose to invest in Lyft instead
Not just that there isn't a dominant player yet. Lyft doesn't have to spend a billion developing the early tech that's now available for them to use.
At this point the dominant players are Waymo and Cruise. I don't see a shortcut of avoiding real world tests and accumulating autonomous miles.
What happened with the Waymo deal?
Its like an open source platform. Any autonomous system can plug into Lyft. Lyft is just adding another provider to the platform, Waymo being another provider. If Waymo's autonomous system is better (which it clearly is). Everyone using Lyft will obviously go to Waymo. Win win for everyone. On other hand, if Waymo pulls out and launches its own Ride sharing app, our platform will have other providers including Lyft.
The way integration will be done, fee and pricing will be decided once systems come to the market
just for ipo eyeball. Easy.
Not really. Read the article. Its a huge investment.
They're doing it for the same reason we are. They have to. They're just doing it years behind and with less resources than about 4 other players. More has been done with less, but I think we can all be honest that it's a long shot.
Most self driving cars are shitty, so no, you guys aren't late. Welcome to the race :)
Hopefully we can don better then Uber's 0.8 miles/disengagement rate
0.8 miles/ disengagement is not bad. Most autonomous rides will be <2 miles for the first year or 2!
Will all your SDC work be in PA, or will some be in SF?
Mountain view/ Palo Alto
The dream. Build a platform where other people do the actual work. Works for Valve I guess.
and ituens music store and apple app store and Google play store etc. also NASDAQ and your local Target, Macy's mall. also, wait! Uber!
hiho, clueless much? Valve adds tremendous value to the gaming world. That's all that Uber does too in the transportation world.
Lyft isn't late, it's just now public. It also isn't inexperienced, it has many partners with which it shares and receives info to/from. It's a much better approach than Uber's "put in all my chips" approach. If Waymo, does something brilliant, good for Lyft. If GM does, good for Lyft, if Lyft does, even better for Lyft. Nobody else has really set themselves up in this way.
Where is all this assurance coming from? What is stopping Waymo from selling their cars to Uber as well as Lyft? Google doesn't want Uber to fail, Google just wants Uber ATG to fail. If Uber succeeds then Google Ventures get a hefty payout. If Uber ATG fails then Google gets a bigger payout because on top of getting Uber money they're also selling cars.
Has Uber opened up their network as a platform? In what way is Uber equipped to taking on Waymo autonomous cars?
Ketchup time
They are the Microsoft of ride sharing
Lol not even a Microsoft crony could pull off that analogy