The all-electric robotaxi service from Lyft and Motional is now available in Las Vegas
Las Vegas now offers a brand-new robotaxi service to the general public. It's operated by Lyft and the autonomous car startup Motional, and it serves as a trial run for a fully driverless service that will be introduced to the city in 2023. Motional, a joint venture between Hyundai and Aptiv, has been testing its self-driving cars in Las Vegas with Lyft for more than four years. During the yearly Consumer Electronics Show in 2018, Aptiv and Lyft conducted a one-week pilot to test the system. Since then, over 100,000 passenger journeys have been completed. The firms today announced the opening of that service to the general public, making it possible for customers to hail a ride in one of the firm's autonomous, all-electric Hyundai Ioniq 5 cars for the first time. As with previous robotaxi services that have been introduced throughout the years, a safety driver will always be behind the wheel just in case. However, according to Motional and Lyft, fully autonomous vehicles will s...