{"id":887,"date":"2016-01-05T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T16:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/youll-be-able-to-call-a-self-driving-car-to-pick-you-up-as-lyft-and-gm-challenge-uber\/"},"modified":"2016-01-05T00:01:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T16:01:14","slug":"youll-be-able-to-call-a-self-driving-car-to-pick-you-up-as-lyft-and-gm-challenge-uber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/youll-be-able-to-call-a-self-driving-car-to-pick-you-up-as-lyft-and-gm-challenge-uber\/","title":{"rendered":"You'll be able to call a self-driving car to pick you up, as Lyft and GM challenge Uber"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lyft and Uber are in a race to boot drivers off the road<\/p>\n

Lyft, the friendly ride-hailing competitor to Uber, announced Monday that it has entered into a strategic partnership with automotive giant General Motors to create a network of self-driving cars that can pick up and drop off passengers as Lyft’s fleet of drivers does today.<\/p>\n

The bet, in short: more people may be willing to hail an occasional ride in a self-driving car than to actually buy one of these vehicles for themselves<\/p>\n

\u201cWe see the future of personal mobility as connected, seamless and autonomous,” Dan Ammann, president of General Motors, said in a statement. “With GM and Lyft working together, we believe we can successfully implement this vision more rapidly.\u201d Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lyft and Uber are in a race to boot drivers off the road Lyft, the friendly ride-hailing competitor to Uber, announced Monday that it has entered into a strategic partnership with automotive giant General Motors to create a network of … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,381,384,1,383,382],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-general-motors","category-lyft","category-other","category-startups","category-uber"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}