{"id":698898,"date":"2025-11-13T00:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/big-platforms-chart-gradual-path-to-self-driving-at-web-summit\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T00:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:16:06","slug":"big-platforms-chart-gradual-path-to-self-driving-at-web-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/big-platforms-chart-gradual-path-to-self-driving-at-web-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Big platforms chart gradual path to self-driving at Web Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af03d0dea3a8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af03d0dea3a8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/big-platforms-chart-gradual-path-to-self-driving-at-web-summit\/#Across_US-China_divide\" >Across US-China divide<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/big-platforms-chart-gradual-path-to-self-driving-at-web-summit\/#Human_touch\" >Human touch<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2025\/lyft-ceo-david-risher.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2025\/lyft-ceo-david-risher.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Lyft CEO David Risher said if in five years, if autonomous driving makes up &quot;even ten percent of our business, that would be enormously successful&quot;\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2025\/lyft-ceo-david-risher.jpg\" alt=\"Lyft CEO David Risher said if in five years, if autonomous driving makes up &quot;even ten percent of our business, that would be enormously successful&quot;\" title=\"Lyft CEO David Risher said if in five years, if autonomous driving makes up &quot;even ten percent of our business, that would be enormously successful&quot;\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Lyft CEO David Risher said if in five years, if autonomous driving makes up &#8220;even ten percent of our business, that would be enormously successful&#8221;<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Major Western ride-hailing platforms like Uber and Lyft sketched a gradual path toward introducing self-driving cars at this week&#8217;s Web Summit in Lisbon, with infrastructure, developing regulation and passengers&#8217; preference for human contact weighing on the brakes.<\/p>\n<p>Building autonomous vehicles many times safer than human drivers is &#8220;almost largely solved,&#8221; Uber&#8217;s operations chief Andrew Macdonald told Web Summit attendees on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now what you have is a commercialization question.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In five years, if (autonomous driving) achieves even 10% of our business, that would be enormously successful,&#8221; Lyft chief David Risher told AFP in a Wednesday interview.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s terms, that would represent around $500 million of the just under $5 billion of gross bookings Lyft reported in its fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>That was a fraction of the roughly $50 billion reported by Uber for the same period, albeit on a broader slate of activities including food delivery.<\/p>\n<p>For now, Lyft\u2014which accounts for around 30% of the US market and recently bought leading European taxi-hailing <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> FreeNow\u2014is planning pilot schemes in individual cities.<\/p>\n<p>It expects to partner from next year on a Nashville project with Californian startup Waymo\u2014which already offers self-driving rides in San Francisco\u2014and with Chinese tech giant Baidu in Germany and Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Those two countries have been the fastest in Europe to launch official application schemes to run self-driving pilots, FreeNow boss Thomas Zimmermann told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Uber&#8217;s Macdonald said Tuesday that Germany and the UK were also first in line for European pilots from the sector&#8217;s juggernaut.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                        <!-- TechX - News - In-article --><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Across_US-China_divide\"><\/span>Across US-China divide<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A thicket of partnerships has sprung up in autonomous driving, with Uber also working with Waymo in US cities Austin and Atlanta, and with China&#8217;s WeRide in Gulf locations such as Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>Lyft has joined forces with American developers like Tensor and May Mobility and US-Israeli firm Mobileye.<\/p>\n<p>Where American and Chinese companies are competing fiercely in sectors like AI and semiconductors, collaborations are more common in autonomous vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Geopolitical tensions mean China&#8217;s manufacturers are unlikely to push to conquer the American car market with their self-driving offerings for the time being, Risher said.<\/p>\n<p>And in markets like Europe, where they may lack local contacts and knowledge, &#8220;Chinese companies have a view that they need a partnership with a company like ours to commercialize their <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Familiarity with each market is vital, as beyond getting cars on the road &#8220;you need supportive regulatory frameworks&#8230; you need to figure out ownership and infrastructure models and that means financing, it means real estate, it means power, and you need a hell of a lot of power,&#8221; Uber&#8217;s Macdonald said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not something that you do sitting at a desk 10,000 miles away,&#8221; Risher said.<\/p>\n<p>Web Summit kicked off with a warning from organizer Paddy Cosgrave that &#8220;the era of Western tech dominance is fading.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But in self driving, technology levels are comparable enough that &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t say this is an area where the Chinese have a particular advantage,&#8221; Risher said.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Human_touch\"><\/span>Human touch<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Both the heavyweight platforms say that human drivers will be operating most of their rides for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is gonna be a delicate transition going from fully human labor to AI in the physical world in the form of autonomous vehicles,&#8221; Macdonald said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our network, I think, will help us feather in these vehicles and make that transition work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For now, &#8220;there&#8217;s just not enough autonomous vehicles in the world to satisfy all the demand,&#8221; Risher said.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, &#8220;there are plenty of times when people are going to want help with their luggage or a kind word at the end of the day&#8221; from a human driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n                                                \u00a9 2025 AFP\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>                                        <!-- print only --><\/p>\n<div class=\"d-none d-print-block\">\n<p>\n                                                <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                Big platforms chart gradual path to self-driving at Web Summit (2025, November 12)<br \/>\n                                                retrieved 12 November 2025<br \/>\n                                                from https:\/\/techxplore.com\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\/2025-11-big-platforms-gradual-path-web.html\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>\n                                            This document is subject to copyright. 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