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Big platforms chart gradual path to self-driving at Web Summit

Lyft and Uber plan pilot projects in multiple U.S. and European cities, targeting a gradual rollout with autonomous rides aiming for 10% of business in five years.

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Major Western ride-hailing platforms like Uber and Lyft sketched a gradual path toward introducing self-driving cars at this week's Web Summit in Lisbon, with infrastructure, developing regulation and passengers' preference for human contact weighing on the brakes.

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Drivers replaced by autonomous cars at Uber or Lyft ? Both platforms work towards the progressive integration of autonomous driving, multiplying partnerships, but advancing cautiously against consumers attached to the human presence behind the steering wheel.

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Both VTC platforms work towards the progressive integration of autonomous driving, multiplying partnerships, but advancing cautiously against consumers attached to the human presence behind the steering wheel.

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Large mobility platforms such as Uber and Lyft outlined planes for the introduction of driverless cars during the Web Summit held in Lisbon, but infrastructure, the development of regulation and the preference of passengers for human contact slow this process.The manufacture of self-contained vehicles safer than cars driven by humans "is almost largely resolved," said Uber's chief of operations Andrew McDonald on Tuesday."What remains to be done…

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France24 broke the news in France on Wednesday, November 12, 2025.
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