May Mobility's partnership with Lyft marks its first entry into ride-hailing, with plans to transition to fully driverless vehicles over time. The deal with Mobileye will enable any fleet of vehicles equipped with Mobileye Drive to plug into the Lyft network in the future. The partnership with Nexar will pair Nexar’s real-world footage with Lyft’s historical and anonymized marketplace data to create a robust dataset for AV technology development.
Key takeaways:
- Lyft has announced three partnerships with May Mobility, Mobileye, and Nexar, aimed at establishing a foothold in the autonomous vehicle market.
- Lyft signed a deal with May Mobility to launch autonomous vehicles on the Lyft app starting in Atlanta in 2025. This is May Mobility's first foray into ride-hail.
- Lyft's partnership with Intel-owned Mobileye will allow certain AV tech-equipped vehicles to tap into the ride-hailing app. Mobileye is testing its Drive technology in Austin, Detroit, and Orlando, Florida.
- Lyft and Nexar have a data-sharing agreement designed to give OEMs and operators better insights to train autonomous driving systems. The two companies will pair Nexar’s over 45 petabytes of real-world footage with Lyft’s historical and freshly anonymized and aggregated marketplace data.