Lyft unveils a new self-driving car and acquires an AR startup to help it build maps

On Tuesday, Lyft offered a glimpse of its brand-new self-driving car. It’s a Ford Focus hybrid sedan with technology designed and built by the ride-hailing company’s in-house team of autonomous vehicle engineers. Lyft also announced the acquisition of Blue Vision Labs, a London-based augmented reality startup that uses computer vision to process street-level imagery. Lyft has 300 engineers working on self-driving cars The acquisition, first reported by TechCrunch, is a first for Lyft’s “Level 5” self-driving division. The company announced that it would start building its own autonomous driving technology in July 2017. It was a bold move for a company that, at the time, had been content to simply partner with more experienced automakers... Continue reading…