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Taggart Matthiesen

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“No hints other than standby. There's a lot of exciting activities that we have planned for this year, both on the platform side and the self-driving system.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The other piece is again if you look at the community that we have, the driver of education, there's also a number of things that we do in terms of driver incentives to help you as a driver get up to speed on our platform. And there's tipping, of course, as well, which I know our competitor is now jumping into the game as well.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Great. Fantastic. We have this thing called Express Drive. Express drive, we can provide you actually with a vehicle. You can almost imagine the minute you sign up, I can hand you the keys and you're basically driving that vehicle now for lift. And that, I mean, unless you have a car. No. I think we've already highlighted it.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. Yeah, we have an entire team. If you look at our product organization, we have an entire team that's focused on the driver experience.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They seem to be following a lot of the efforts that we've done for a number of years. And I can't speak to their efforts. When we look at drivers. They have been core and part of our family. And so we're going to continue to improve that experience. I look at it as an opportunity for us to even continue to even differentiate beyond, I think, what they're trying to do.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've had a number of conversations with drivers on one side of the spectrum. They're dubious. They're not exactly convinced that this technology will evolve to a point where it can service passengers at the level that they think it needs to. And then I think there's others that are actually quite excited about this technology change and actually want to be a part of it and do see the opportunities that may come out of this as these autonomous vehicles come to market.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, yes, we've been proactive with our drivers. We have an advisory council that works with them. And I think it's one of these things that we want to continue to work with them. Again, this is a transition that it's going to take a significant amount of time. And I think there's a real opportunity here to work with our drivers as we always have on what this future is going to look like”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's another service that we can provide. In terms of drivers on our platform, we don't see it being any less than it is today. Like we see them absolutely core and we're very early on in terms of our growth. And so we see drivers being a critical component of this equation. And I think over time, we can provide additional services as part of our platform to our passengers that these drivers may be interested in.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the first thing is. Drivers have always been part of our family. They have been core to our service. And as far as I'm concerned, they will continue to be that. And yes, over time, technology will give us opportunities to potentially provide additional services on our platform, whether that is a concierge service, whether that is an in-vehicle experience where a driver helps out in that capacity. These are all things that we will slowly evolve and work with our drivers on. The other piece is if you think about hundreds of thousands of autonomous vehicles, there's an aspect of cleaning. There's an aspect of maintenance. There's an aspect of kind of like fleet management. And so I think over time, you're going to see a lot of services that come up that kind of surround this area that provide us yet another opportunity.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, absolutely. And so that's why we're working with these partners. That's why we've opened it up so early is that we want to be one of the first to market, to have these relationships to help build this technology so it fits our platform quite well.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But the competitive advantage of being one of the first is that you will be earlier to be able to test and validate get more information and then improve the service. And then that improvement is kind of what makes.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it's too early to tell exactly how that will play out. But the goal here is to get those vehicles onto the network to tie them into our service in a scalable way, not just If you have five or ten vehicles floating around a given city, that to me isn't scale.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, so the competitive advantage there is not so much because there is the aspect of it where there's going to be increased profitability given that you'll have fewer drivers, that you need to pay a commission out to. I don't”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because our whole business, I think, over time is tied into that. So, again, we talk about this hybrid network, and it's not just 100,000 vehicles. It's just making sure that we can evolve into it And so the key here is to ensure that we have the sophistication where we're in a city like San Francisco, and let's say we have 10,000 autonomous vehicles that those 10,000 vehicles can be weaved into our hybrid network to ensure you as a passenger will always get a ride. And that also, as we introduce those into the platform, allows us to improve UTA. It allows us to improve our routing. There's a whole host of things that we can do. And it's quite critical when we talk about those numbers because those numbers That's where you really start to change the service. And potentially change the experience for passengers as well.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no, no, no. And so, again, if you look at our strategy, it's both And so, yes, we want to be the first to market that have self-driving vehicles on our network, but it's important to note we're less interested, so you're going to see for a number of years, pockets. And to me, that's not the exciting piece. The exciting piece is once you have tens of thousands, 50,000, 100,000 of these self-driving vehicles on your network. That's where we want to be one of the first. And that's going to take time for us to evolve, both our network as well as our partners' technology. But that's our core focus.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That over time we'll get to the maturity where we can work with our partners to see how we can further collaborate. And it may be, as you mentioned before, Bits and pieces, but maybe it could be the entire kit.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If you think about where vehicles are today, and it may be, let's talk about perception stack. Depending on the city that you're in. There are different pedestrian patterns. So it may be that a given partner's stack has been trained on a given set of cities. Maybe it's San Francisco or maybe it's New York. I think what you're going to find that there's going to be very, very unique things that you're going to want to train on as you go to different cities. And it may be something that we can provide. As a service or as an add on. And so it is, again, early on with all of this stuff. If you ask where we are today, we've built this open platform. We're working with our partners. And now we're also starting to build out this self-driving system”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But it wouldn't be the case where in an autonomy car Lyft has its self driving software for that particular partnership, I know you guys haven't talked too deeply about the details of any of your partnerships, but Neutony would be creating the entire self-driving stack and would just kind of be plugging into the platform, correct?”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I don't see any competition whatsoever. We've talked to our partners as well, and we still are working with these partners, and clearly they see this as a collaborative effort, not as a competitive one.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I don't think it's competing at all. And I look at it as when or as we're building out The goal here is that as we build out this technology, we have an opportunity to feed this technology back to our partners. And whether that is mapping, whether that is localization, whether that is path planning.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so this is something that I think you guys have probably filled a lot of questions about because when you announced that you were doing your own self-driving system, but it does appear that you are now kind of competing with your partners, Neutony, for instance, alphabet, self-driving arm, talk to me about why that is or is not true.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so I'm on the Lyft network, I get into an autonomy car. And that's where I think the, you need to have tight integration on that as well. But I don't see it as just, boom, just lift.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think each provider of this autonomous tech, there's going to be an aspect of their brand in that vehicle. It's not like this is going to be Lyft only. And if you look at the Open platform, and I'll use an example of one of our providers, it's the Newtony Vehicle. It's the Newtony self-driving car on the Lyft network. And we want to make sure that when I as a passenger get into that vehicle, Yes, I know that I got in through my lift app, and we'd like to have the experience in the vehicle consistent across these partners for the passenger's sake. But at the same time, we also want to make sure that there is an awareness where our partners can highlight their technology. So, I look at it as it's a collaboration. It's not just. Lyft only, it's absolutely kind of a lift. For example, a lift neutrony experience”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so automakers in the past, for instance, with alphabet and later on with Uber, have been sort of resistant to letting these tech companies kind of take control of the in-car experience because obviously they don't want to become metal benders for tech companies. How have your automaker partners sort of reacted to the idea of working closely with Lyft on things like how a sensor communicates with a passenger or things like that?”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's definitely going to be an integrated experience because if you think about it, you sit down and there's going to be weight on a seat. A sensor is going to recognize that a sensor would need to then send it to imagine you have a lift experience on a console. That console needs to recognize the fact that there is weight in that seat. And so it will need to be a very, very integrated experience between the vehicle itself, the sensors, and the vehicle, and then the experience that we plan to build out.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, there's one of the things we absolutely need to get right is to ensure the safety that the right passenger is getting into the right vehicle. And there is a number of technologies today that allow us to do that handshake. But the expectation is that. No, no. And I won't get into the specific technologies, but what we want to do is ensure that There is a validation from the vehicle and a validation from the passenger that yes, this is in fact my car, that the passenger can get into the car, that there can be enough kind of, again, a handshake of sorts to ensure that the passenger has closed the door, has fastened their seatbelt. And if there are other passengers in that car as well, ensuring that there's enough validation there, focusing on that safety aspect.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that seems like a huge, huge opportunity for Lyft or from any company working on this, you know, creating a customer experience so that your brand is kind of the touch point for the consumer throughout the ride. But let's break down the passenger validation aspect of it. That people know today, how is a self driving car going to make sure that this passenger is the right person?”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Into the car to then maybe some experience stuff around whether it's your Spotify or Netflix account just Magically turning on as you get into the vehicle to it may be a quality or ride. It may be that I get motion sickness. And so what I want is a slower ride or baby that it's On Friday, and I'm going home, and we know that. So instead of going down the freeway, I'm going to take some side streets and kind of enjoy myself. There are all these things that we can do, and I think pretty critical in terms of evolving the experience.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think first we're very flexible on that I think one of the things we should focus on is that experience. And so today we have the passenger app, we have the driver app, and then clearly you have the experience in the car. Once you take that driver out of the car, you go from this very familiar environment to a very foreign one, especially in the early years of autonomous vehicles. And that, I think, is really an area where we can focus on not only providing the experience, but also a bit of education as well for passengers so they help understand how the car is perceiving the world, but then also gives us yet another opportunity to improve all of the kind of experiential stuff that we've been working on. So it's absolutely about the pickup experience. So long before the car even arrives, how do we evolve that to ensure that it's a very, very clean pickup to getting into the car, to the validation that it's in fact the right passenger that all the passengers that have got it?”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so you and I have actually talked a lot about this particular aspect of it, but talk more about how Lyft plans to not control, but have sort of a say on how consumers kind of interact with the car? Is the plan to have kind of control over the in-car experience at all? Is it going to just be through the app? What do you guys think in terms of consumer experience?”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Be a point of how do you evolve beyond just looking at this of going from point A to point B? And we talked about it a little bit earlier, but I think there's a huge and exciting area of kind of personalization around the experience that we can improve and an area that we'll focus on. But I think that's also a number of years in the future. I think getting there, and that's where we've been focusing, is helping evolve this technology. That's going to take time. And I think doing it right instead of doing it in a contrived fashion is also something that we're focusing on as well. We're not looking to partner and then just release vehicles or experiences that don't fit our brand. And so that's why we're working with a number of partners and we spent a significant amount of time on this. And we're waiting for the technology to get to a point where we feel it matches the level of experience that passengers get today.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The hope here is that a number of providers actually get to the point where they have level five vehicles. And we're actually quite excited about getting a significant number of partners, which is why we built this open platform. And your question around, hey, are you going to get a little concerned about this being commoditized? I actually look at it, know what our focus will be is how do we ensure that our platform is flexible enough to take any of these vehicles from these providers and then on top of that i really think it's going to be the experiences where we differentiate and so we look at today how do we differentiate we differentiate on the experience and i think in the future that's the same focus that we will have now clearly we're going to want to make sure that we can integrate these to the point where we can optimize in certain conditions in cities but it's also going to”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's more of think we can do more than just provide the mapping data. We have the experience to help with perception, to help with localization. And so I think that if someone asks, and I have been asked that question a number of times, it's not just about the data. Yes, we could work and help some of our partners with the data, but we can also provide significant experience beyond just that.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's not so much that. I think it's more we have a ton of experience and data that we can bring to the table to help our partners evolve their technology, as well as evolve our own.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think there's two reasons. One, we actually have, I think, key aspects and assets that we want to help provide to these organizations, to these partners. We think we can improve and speed up those efforts. Again, we know the routes. We have been working on mapping for a significant amount of time as well. And there's an opportunity here for us to help those efforts. And then too, we need to make sure that we have access to this technology in the future. And so it seems almost, I guess in my mind, I've been thinking about it too long, but kind of an obvious extension to what we do today. And an investment that I think is quite critical for our organization to continue to thrive and grow as a company.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That companies need to build in order to have a self driving car. Right. And so, if you look at our network, yes, like you said before, it seems like a very natural extension to go talk to some of these providers to bring their technologies onto our platform. But what we realized is that we also have a significant amount of both data and expertise and our core competency as it relates to mapping with locations in ETA is actually key to this problem. And so we have some of these pieces, and that's what kind of brought us to the point of, well, let's continue to build that out, which is why now in like we said, Palo Alto, level five engineering, we'll have a large level.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that actually is, I would argue, part of the autonomous problem. So we've been focusing on mapping. If you think about how do you get a self-driving car to drive itself, well, you start with mapping. You then get into perception. You then get into localization. Then you can start talking about actually driving the car, which effectively is path planning. And we have a number of people that have done this in the past. And so if you look at Luke Vincent, who is VP of Engineering, who's running autonomous, came from Google, basically, I call him the godfather of Street View, but has a ton of experience in the world of mapping and perception. And these are core aspects that”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so there's one aspect of that is the data. We know the routes. And so we have an opportunity to work with our partners to ensure that the technology, that they're bringing to market fits kind of those requirements. And the second piece on that is our core business is really about mapping an ETAs. We've kind of talked about this a little bit earlier, but it's absolutely critical to get drivers to passengers as fast as we can. And there's a lot of kind of mechanics behind that”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely, absolutely. And if you look at our efforts with the brain, the self-driving system, it's actually tied to that very, very closely. And the reason why we announced this and the reason why we think we're so well positioned is a couple of points. One, we have a significant amount of data. We do a million a day in terms of trips. If you think about the self-driving problem for vehicles, a lot of people will talk about mapping. Well, there's 930 some odd miles of navigable road in San Francisco. And yet we have enough information to help us identify very small segment of that that would allow us to get our vehicles up and running. So we don't need to map all 930 some odd miles of road. We can map a very small segment of that and bring these cars On those.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We've been working on autonomous for about two years now, and I would actually argue the strategy hasn't changed. What you're seeing is us slowly and surely opening up new pieces of that strategy. So the first thing as we talked about in the past is this open platform and working with a number of partners to bring their self-driving technologies onto our platform to our passengers. And that is something that's very, very core and clearly a”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's a fun aspirational idea of where can we take this. Yes, I mean, if you look at John Zimmer, he came from hospitality. Vertical, and this is something that he's talked about as well how do you go from just taking someone from point A to point B to making an amazing experience? And so, yes, over time, you could have It may be a different car that takes me into work versus the car that I take to, I don't know, go to a concert or maybe go to Tahoe or... Go with my kids to soccer practice. These are all different experiences that we could potentially provide as part of our service when you start to think about the pod. Right. I think there's a lot that we need to do first”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And in speaking of which a few years ago when I first started writing at Lift's Autonomous Efforts, I talked to a few people at the company and there was this idea behind creating experience pods. You know, you know, each car can have sort of a different theme. One is a working pod, another one is like maybe a manicure or a pedicure pod. Is that still kind of the direction that you guys are heading toward?”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In the sense that it's not, if you look at autonomous vehicles, and one great example, we do non-emergency medical transport. Which is if I need to go to, let's say, the doctor's office and my leg is in a cast and I can't drive, we have a service for that. And I think if you get into the world of autonomous, we may need someone in that vehicle to help that person. Help them get out of the door. And so I think there are things that we're doing beyond just getting a passenger from point A to point B where there's additional services that we can as a company look at.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's going to slowly and surely be part of your day over time. Now, when will it be a fleet of autonomous vehicles? 100%. I think that it may never be 100%. And it will take a significant amount of time to get there.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, and if you look at, we have a number of partners that we've announced with the open platform, I think the opportunity here, and we want to collaborate, again, this is very, very important, especially as you look at autonomous and where it's going and what it means, I think, to society. We have a chance here to work together to slowly evolve the capabilities of this technology in a very isolated and safe fashion. And that's where working, and each partner will be slightly different, and we'll have a different experience as well, we will Slowly and surely bring these onto our network in a way that, as you again, like I said before, as a passenger. It's no different. I mean, yes, it's going to be an autonomous vehicle”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that's sort of your pitch to auto makers who work with you as well. You're going to have, you know, in between when you don't have enough fully self-driving cars, there won't be that sort of pocket of time where consumers aren't getting a ride. There will still be drivers fulfilling that if there aren't enough self-driving cars.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so, what I think you will see is over time, you're going to start to see these autonomous vehicles in pockets. On the Lyft network. And as the technology evolves and improves, you will see greater rides being serviced by these or these vehicles being dispatched to our passengers. And the nice thing about all of this is that you as a lift passenger, you're kind of abstracted from all of this, meaning you're always going to get a ride. When you need to go from this office to the airport, we'll have a car in three minutes or less to you. And in some cases, it will be a traditional lift, and in other cases, it will be an autonomous vehicle.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Fully Atonics. And the beauty of these networks is that. And I've talked to a few people about this. We know the start, the end of the ride before it happens, which is actually quite interesting. We can look at the time of day. We can look at the weather. We can look at the traffic patterns. We can actually look at the segment, basically the route, which the car is going to navigate. And we can evaluate based on those constraints or conditions whether or not we think it's an optimal condition for an autonomous vehicle to be dispatched.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, it's anyone's guess at this time. You could say six to ten years from now, you start to see fleets of autonomous vehicles. But I think the better way to look at it, or at least in my opinion, one way to look at it, you're going to start to see these autonomous vehicles out in some of these urban areas.”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So there's still a fair amount of debate over when this is actually going to happen at scale. And so you talked a little bit about the hybrid model, and we can go into that a little bit. But I think even two years ago, people were saying either it's never going to happen or it's going to happen in like 40 to 50 years at the earliest. This year, I think we've sort of overcorrected, and people are like, yeah, it's happening. It's going to happen next year. But, you know, just given automakers production cycle, the fleet turnover rate regulations, the infrastructure changes that we're going to need, it seems like the reality is somewhere more in between. So where does Lyft stand on and when we'll see fully autonomous cars on the road en masse”
2017-08-14 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT