General Motors and Lyft will begin to experience robotaxi next year.

Chevrolet Bolt interior



While ordinary taxi drivers are jealous of those who went to work on the Uber system, it’s time for all taxi drivers to be on their guard: General Motors and Lyft are planning to conduct a robotaxi test based on Chevrolet Bolt electric cars in one of the American cities next year. The technology of the company Cruise Automation Inc., which GM plans to purchase for $ 1 billion, will be used to operate the robot.



GM is actively buying technologies and means of attracting customers to create a network of automatic taxis - apparently, the company's management is seriously confident in the success of such an enterprise. In January, General Motors invested $ 500 million in Lyft - and even then the company planned to use robomobils.



According to the source in the manual Lyft, they plan to test the technology in one American city, whose name has not yet been disclosed, on the very real ordinary customers of a taxi. True, customers will be given the opportunity to choose - whether they want to try to ride with a robotic driver.

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Napoleonic plans also include testing of Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles, which are scheduled for release by the end of 2016 (Chevrolet is a division of GM). Total, at the disposal of the giant will be and the production of cars, and technology of automatic driving, and customer base. GM plans at some point to rent on preferential terms the usual (non-automatic) Chevrolet Bolt electric cars to Lyft drivers.



Among the competitors of the company are automatically: Google with its own project; Uber, a direct competitor of Lyft, which has much larger volumes, and since last year has already been developing its concept of a mobile ; Tesla, which produces electric cars and gradually adds autonomous driving functions. Apparently, by the beginning of the 2020s, the number of road vehicles on the roads will start to grow very quickly.