Ride-hailing company Lyft has sold off its autonomous vehicle unit to Toyota’s Woven Planet Holdings subsidiary for $550 million https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/26/lyft-sells-self-driving-unit-to-toyotas-woven-planet-for-550m/
Good for Lyft. Losses are less now.
Did you guys make a profit on this sale?
What does this mean for the employees that work on it? Do they get much out of it?
They become Toyota employees in the long-term. Not in l5 so not aware of comp change details.
How does Lyft AV’s fit in Toyota? I thought Toyota already has TRI that works on autonomous 🚗
TRI doesn’t focus as much on autonomous - more on driver assist and robotics
Wow that's cheap
Ikr not even a billion dollars
Uber had to pay 400 million dollars to get rid of it's self driving division.