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GM and Lyft to Test Thousands of Self-Driving Electric Cars in 2018

posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 20 2017, @11:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the quite-uplyfting dept.

takyon writes:

Reuters reports that General Motors will test thousands of self-driving electric cars in partnership with Lyft in 2018:

General Motors Co plans to deploy thousands of self-driving electric cars in test fleets in partnership with ride-sharing affiliate Lyft Inc, beginning in 2018, two sources familiar with the automaker's plans said this week. It is expected to be the largest such test of fully autonomous vehicles by any major automaker before 2020, when several companies have said they plan to begin building and deploying such vehicles in higher volumes. Alphabet Inc's Waymo subsidiary, in comparison, is currently testing about 60 self-driving prototypes in four states.

Most of the specially equipped versions of the Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicle will be used by San Francisco-based Lyft, which will test them in its ride-sharing fleet in several states, one of the sources said. GM has no immediate plans to sell the Bolt AV to individual customers, according to the source. The sources spoke only on condition of anonymity because GM has not announced its plans yet.

Also at Ars Technica, TechCrunch, and The Verge.

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  • (Score: 2) by driven on Monday February 20 2017, @03:18PM

    by driven (6295) on Monday February 20 2017, @03:18PM (#469273)

    I'm starting to feel nostalgic for times when words had a straight meaning and metaphors where artifacts to be used in poetry/literature (you know? Time when news were true and cross-checked facts and propaganda was detected as such by most of the population).

    One piece of the puzzle: We're all suffering from information overload [techcrunch.com].
    Perhaps when we each have our own personal AI assistant it will be able to help make sense of all this data for us. For example, making it easy to "follow the money", to fact check, bring up someone's history of truth vs. lies.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 20 2017, @06:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 20 2017, @06:44PM (#469373)

    Apparently we need more bandwidth, just get your new imant from Musk, that brilliant fortune teller saw this coming!