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Mobileye and Lyft aim to commercialize autonomous shuttles

Autonomous driving services are intended to become mainstream, which is the goal of the cooperation between the US ride service provider and the Israeli AD specialist.

Drives and arrives on its own: Lyft wants to roll out autonomous shuttles together with Mobileye. | Photo: Lyft
Drives and arrives on its own: Lyft wants to roll out autonomous shuttles together with Mobileye. | Photo: Lyft
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The American on-demand ride service provider Lyft and the Israeli driving assistance specialist and Intel subsidiary Mobileye have announced plans for collaboration. Under this collaboration, they aim to make autonomous vehicle services commercially available on a large scale through industry-leading fleet operators. By leveraging advances in artificial intelligence for autonomous driving, the Israelis are providing their technology for self-driving vehicles (AVs) to an ecosystem of manufacturers who design vehicles specifically for autonomous operation, outlines the provider. These vehicles are available for purchase by fleet operators and transport service providers, according to the concept.

40 Million Passengers a Year

The collaboration aims to utilize the Lyft network with 40 million passengers annually in North America to meet the demand for Mobileye Drive-based AV fleets on the platform. Future AV operators who want to deploy and manage large fleets in various metropolitan regions of North America are to gain access to passenger demand by acquiring "Lyft-ready" vehicles with the system. This allows them to optimize the utilization and profitability of their fleets, promotes the provider.

Cloud-Based Demand Generation

Both companies also plan to use Mobileye's new cloud-based technology for demand generation for autonomous vehicles, which connects vehicles with Mobileye Drive and AV fleet operators. By combining Mobileye's turnkey ecosystem for autonomous vehicles with Lyft's interfaces for AV partners, AV fleets could be monetized by offering Lyft users a wide availability of autonomous vehicles, it is hoped.

"Mobileye's full-stack technology is an important building block to make autonomous fleets 'Lyft-ready'," believes David Risher, CEO of Lyft.

Collaboration with leading mobility providers and operators is a crucial step to make autonomous mobility services a reality," says Prof. Amnon Shashua, President and CEO of Mobileye. Integrating one's own system into the ride service network could open new markets and leverage the benefits of technology within a sustainable business model.

Together with network transport providers as well as vehicle operators and manufacturers, Mobileye has made its AV technology available for various Mobility-as-a-Service projects in Europe and North America. Vehicles with the technology are currently being used in pilot projects with different mobility service providers in Germany, Norway, Croatia, and the USA.

Translated automatically from German.
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