Lyft Line: Partnership with Ford is the Latest in the Self-Driving-Tech Push

– Lyft has secured another partnership with a major automaker in its quest to advance self-driving technology. The company, which is based in San Francisco, said Wednesday it has signed an agreement with Ford to develop and deploy autonomous vehicles on its ride-sharing network, which Lyft says operates almost a million rides every day. Within […]

Google’s Waymo Sues Uber, Alleging Top Executive Took Self-Driving-Tech Trade Secrets

– Trade secrets involving autonomous-vehicle technologies are at the heart of a blockbuster dispute between two of Silicon Valley’s most influential companies. – In a lawsuit filed Thursday, Waymo, the company formerly known as Google’s self-driving-car project, alleges that a former employee who now heads Uber’s autonomous-driving unit downloaded more than 14,000 “highly confidential and […]