Company
Lyft subsidiary that rents, manages, and services vehicle fleets, including depots supporting Waymo robotaxi operations in markets like Nashville.
Half the 72 people at Lyft's Nashville Waymo depot used to drive for Lyft, which makes the fleet-servicing pitch to displaced drivers the rare one you can divide against a driver base of hundreds of thousands.
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Waymo's Jaguar I-Pace cars went live in Nashville on September 9 hailable from either Waymo One or Lyft, and the agreement between the two companies binds neither side exclusively.
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Flexdrive handles vehicle readiness, maintenance and depot operations while the Lyft app gets a Waymo when one is available. Lyft sold its own autonomy unit to Toyota for $550 million in 2021.
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The wheel-free car gets its production moment in Austin on Thursday, but the fleet it joins is still mostly Model Y, and the Bay Area will not let Tesla run any of it without a driver behind the wheel.
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Flexdrive's Nashville depot opens in October with about 70 staff, roughly half of them former Lyft drivers. It is the clearest look yet at what automation does to labor: relocates it, at a price.
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