GM, Lyft to Test Self-Driving Electric Taxis Within a Year

I see a pattern emerging here: One phase of an enterprise producing training data for another phase of the enterprise to create massive automation.

In this case, it's Lyft and GM joining forces, but this kind of partnership can (and should) happen between a company good at logistics to produce training data quickly and efficiently and a company good at turning that into data products.

Some companies are good at/doing both in-house: Amazon (E-Commerce and IaaS), Google (self-driving cars and search), Facebook (The world's most addictive website) are some of the examples.

If I were a small group of AI powerhouse, I'd definitely consider approach bigger companies with excellent logistics producing rich data.

The thing that concerns me is, there are all these companies now trying to build self-driving cars, but how much information sharing is there?

I would rather see one huge open-source project, that all these companies contribute to. I think we would get self-driving cars a lot sooner if everyone worked together, not separately.

Wow, that's a lot faster than I expected. I wonder how they'll handle making sure it's the right person getting into the car.