DETROIT — Turns out, the first self-driving car you will ride in won’t be one you own; it’ll be one you order up on your smartphone from Lyft.
“The first mainstream deployment of autonomous vehicles won’t be to customers but to a ride-share platform,” General Motors President Dan Ammann told Mashable at the North American International Auto Show.
“We’re going to have a car that operates only in downtown Austin that has a maximum speed of 30 mph and operates in controlled conditions”
Ammann later clarified he was speaking hypothetically; Although GM recently announced a partnership with Lyft, self-driving robo-taxis in Austin are not imminent. Read more…
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