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Lyft Teams Up With Waymo On Self-Driving Cars

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The Lyft app is seen on an iPhone in San Francisco on Feb. 3, 2016. (Josh Edelson/AP for Lyft)
The Lyft app. (Josh Edelson/AP for Lyft)

The ride-hailing app Lyft is getting together with Waymo, which is part of Google's parent company, to develop self-driving car technology.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson speaks with Derek Thompson (@DKThomp), senior editor for The Atlantic, about what the move means for autonomous vehicles, and for Lyft's competitor, Uber.

This segment aired on May 15, 2017.

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