Lyft just launched Earnings Assistant, an AI chatbot designed to help gig drivers plan shifts around airport arrivals and local events. It plots time-blocked routes and flags high-payout Turbo windows, aiming to maximize hourly earnings. Currently rolling out in early access via a waitlist.
Lyft just announced that riders in Atlanta will be able to hail robotaxis starting this summer, using a fleet of Toyota Sienna minivans powered by May Mobility. The ride-hailing company also plans to expand to Dallas in 2026 with Mobileye-equipped vehicles, gearing up to scale thousands of autonomous cars across multiple cities.
Tesla just secured a commercial ride-hailing permit in California, clearing the path to compete head-on with Uber and Lyft. The catch is that human drivers are still mandatory—the permit doesn't cover autonomous vehicles. Tesla plans to have employees drive other staff first before rolling the app-based service out to the public.
Lyft is teaming up with Intel's Mobileye and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni to launch a robotaxi fleet in Dallas as soon as 2026. The ridehail platform is sticking to an asset-light playbook, letting Marubeni own and manage the cars while Mobileye supplies the self-driving tech, all in a bid to keep pace with Uber.
Lyft just partnered with Anthropic to deploy Claude for customer support, cutting resolution times for driver inquiries by 87%. The bot handles frequent questions before routing trickier issues to human staff. Notably, Lyft also revealed that generative AI now writes one in four lines of its engineering code.
