nuTonomy is partnering with Lyft to launch self-driving cars in Boston this year, writes David Silver. While nuTonomy has been targeting self-driving cars in Boston for a while, this is great news for Lyft. Lyft continues to expand its platform as a provider of ridesharing infrastructure, while letting other companies figure out the actual autonomous technology.

Lyft turned its much-smaller-than-Uber size to its advantage here, by credibly committing not to develop autonomous vehicles. That presumably makes it a more attractive partner than Uber, which is developing its own self-driving technology and thus might have conflicts of interest.

Lyft, through a combination of using a presumed weakness to their advantage, and through avoiding unforced errors, is having a pretty great 2017.
Read more: https://medium.com/self-driving-cars/lyfts-autonomous-ridesharing-platform-55cd24da0e86

• No building autonomous vehicles for Lyft, like Uber, but partnering with nuTonomy.