Lyft unveils a new self-driving car and acquires an AR startup to help it build maps

On Tuesday, Lyft offered a glimpse of its brand-new self-driving car. It’s a Ford Focus hybrid sedan with technology designed and built by the ride-hailing company’s in-house team of autonomous vehicle engineers. Lyft also announced the acquisition of Blue Vision Labs, a London-based augmented reality startup that uses computer vision to process street-level imagery.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/23/18014200/lyft-self-driving-car-acquires-blue-vision-lab-ar