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Uber Eats, Motional launch driverless delivery in Santa Monica

Uber Eats app provides autonomous delivery

Food delivery apps found a winner when they added the “leave at door” option to limit customers’ interactions with couriers. But what if your food wasn’t delivered by a human courier at all?

That’s exactly what Uber Eats (NYSE: UBER) and Motional are doing in a new delivery pilot. Launched Monday in Santa Monica, California, the service combines Uber Eats’ delivery platform with Boston-based Motional’s driverless vehicle technology to enable end-to-end food deliveries — no driver necessary.

“At...

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Motional’s AVs to deliver Uber Eats in Santa Monica

Uber Eats customers in Santa Monica, California, will soon be receiving deliveries from autonomous vehicles. Uber is partnering with driverless technology provider Motional to start autonomous delivery of meal kits from select restaurants in Santa Monica early next year.

It is Uber’s first delivery partnership with an autonomous vehicle provider.

“We’re excited to partner with Motional to test a new kind of delivery for Uber Eats consumers in 2022,” said Sarfraz Maredia, vice president and head...

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Motional to begin testing driverless vehicles on streets of LA

Motional California expansion new facility driverless autonomous vehicle car AV

Famously abuzz with stretch limousines, lowriders, fancy sports cars and doorless Jeeps, the streets of Los Angeles soon will host those vehicles’ driverless younger cousin as well.

Autonomous vehicle (AV) company Motional, a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group (OCTUS: HYMTF) and global technology company Aptiv (NYSE: APTV), announced an expansion of its West Coast operations, including new investments in an operations facility and road testing in Los Angeles, a new San Francisco Bay Area...

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How an AV car company is helping keep the lights on

As dozens of companies have worked to bring autonomous vehicles (AVs) to life, most of the outside focus has been directed at safety and legal concerns. While engineers are fine-tuning sensors, cameras and artificial intelligence systems to ensure vehicles properly recognize objects, brake when they are supposed to and safely deliver passengers and cargo to their proper destination, others are looking at what other benefits AVs could bring to the world.

It boils down to this question: Is there a...

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Ford to run self-driving cars on Lyft network later this year

Ford, Argo AI to run self-driving cars in Lyft network

Lyft will begin running autonomous vehicles within its rideshare network before the end of 2021 through a partnership with Ford and Argo AI.

The three companies announced an agreement Wednesday morning that will place self-driving ride-hailing vehicles on Miami city streets later this year and on Austin, Texas, roadways in 2022.

“This collaboration marks the first time all the pieces of the autonomous vehicle puzzle have come together this way,” Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) co-founder and CEO Logan Green...

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Lyft had visions of building an autonomous car. What happened?

Lyft explains decision to sell self-driving car business

When Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) launched Level 5 in 2017, it had grand plans for the autonomous vehicle (AV) division.

“This is too strategic an area for us not to be a player,” Luc Vincent, the Google executive tapped to lead Lyft’s efforts, said at the time. “We want to take an active role.”

Lyft’s decision to start Level 5 came shortly after competitor Uber (NYSE: UBER) launched its own autonomous driving project. In December 2020, Uber sold that money-losing division to Amazon-backed Aurora. As part...

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Motional moves to driverless vehicle testing

Motional testing driverless vehicles in Las Vegas

With agreements in place with ridesharing companies Via and Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT), and backed by the expertise of Hyundai Motor Corp. (LSE: HYUD.LN) and Aptiv, Motional has taken another step in its desire to be the autonomous vehicle of choice. The company announced that it not only is testing driverless vehicles – with no drivers – on roadways but that it has secured a key outside endorsement of its product from consulting firm TÜV SÜD.

“Not all driverless systems are created equal. Ours is the...

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Lyft sees its future, and it is autonomous and B2B focused

Lyft charts course to autonomous driving future

On the Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) earnings call Feb. 9, co-founder and CEO Logan Green spoke a bit about the future of transportation, a future he sees Lyft being perfectly situated to thrive in. He was talking about autonomous vehicles (AV) and business-to-business (B2B) deliveries.

“We believe the future of transportation is as-a-service, and we are the only company in North America that has a seamless multimodal transportation platform that can replace car ownership,” he said. “We expect autonomous...

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