Lyft’s self-driving cars will be launched by 2025 Lyft tries to balance its competition with its long-term competitor Uber. The CEO of Lyft, Mr. John Zimmer, published the vision of Lyft for the next 10 years and above. In the post he explained how to bring out the self-driving cars in three phases. In which, the first phase will be available by 2017. The first phase will constitute the semi-autonomous cars. The semi-autonomous cars will be accessible to the Lyft users, but these cars will not be available in all the routes, they are permitted to drive only in the fixed routes, which the technology is guaranteed to navigate. General Motors invested $500 million with Lyft for the exchange of 10% stake and also to take the agreement to form a network of the self-driving cars together. The second phase constitute the self-driving cars, which are …show more content…
It looks like the request to the regulators to begin to think about how the autonomous technology will impact the cities and the way they operates. Many people who grow in cities, would have saw their cities with full of automobiles, but how would they feel if they take all the cars off the road. At the same way there will be a less traffic and less pollution, there will be a less demand for the parking places, so that the sidewalks can be widened and the streets can be lengthened or narrowed, houses can be built and small business can be started or these spaces can be converted into the parks and the green spaces. The world is built for the people not for the cars. The cities are designed around the cars. Whether is it possible to get back all the spaces or they will be occupies by the garages or the gas stations. But it is not enough to imagine a city with parks and pedestrians with the free space; something should be done with the free space, so the plan for that has to be