Ford partners with Lyft to deploy autonomous vehicles in ride hailing service

Briefing

September 27, 2017

Briefing	Ford-Lyft Partnership – Ford announced as new partner to introduce self-driving vehicles into Lyft's ride-hailing network by 2021 Other Lyft Partners – Include General Motors in deal announced in February 2017, which will deploy thousands of autonomous Bolt AV electric vehicles in 2018 to Lyft’s ride-sharing service, as well as Jaguar Land Rover, Alphabet's Waymo and NuTonomy Software Development – Ford and Lyft will develop software that will enable Ford driverless vehicles to communicate with Lyft’s mobile app
Accelerator	Transportation and Mobility
Market Disruption	Innovation Partnerships, Next-Generation Logistics
Business Model and Practices Business Model and Practices	Innovative Partnerships
Sector	Information Technology, Transportation and Logistics
Organization	Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., Jaguar Land Rover Automotive plc, Lyft, Waymo, nuTonomy
Source	"How Ford and Lyft are teaming up to take self-driving cars mainstream," Medium, https://medium.com/; Etherington, D., "Ford and Lyft’s new self-driving partnership likely to be a standard model", TechCrunch, https://techcrunch.com/; Hawkins, A., "Ford and Lyft will work together to deploy autonomous cars", The Verge, http://www.theverge.com/; AcceleratingBiz analysis
Original Publication Date	September 26, 2017

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