The latest example of that incremental progress occurred in Boston on Wednesday when Lyft announced that the ride-sharing company has begun a self-driving car pilot in the city’s Seaport district. The program, accessible through the Lyft app, is a partnership with the autonomous vehicle startup NuTonomy, which has been testing their cars in Boston since January. Experts predict that driverless cars will advance neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city and state by state as competing car companies gather data, refine their robots and look to grab more territory using what they’ve already learned. A General Motors executive told The Post last week that the company is rushing to launch autonomous vehicles for a ride-hailing service that could compete with Uber and Lyft. [Robot-driven Ubers without a human driver could appear as early as 2019]GM has already begun testing autonomous vehicles on crowded San Francisco streets, said vehicles will not have human backup drivers.

Source: Washington Post December 07, 2017 16:38 UTC