Waymo CEO John Krafcik. Krafcik was formerly the CEO of Hyundai Motor America and also served as president of TrueCar. image: Hyundai

Waymo has announced a partnership with Lyft that’ll see it deploy 10 of its driverless vehicles on the ride-hailing app over the next few months. Lyft users will get the option to summon Waymo’s driverless vehicles for rides in areas where they’ll be made available. This partnership builds atop Waymo One, a commercial driverless vehicle service launched last year December.

Waymo’s announcement didn’t give further details about the partnership with Lyft. Waymo (a subsidiary of Alphabet) currently leads the driverless vehicle race with more than 10 million miles clocked — by its self-driving vehicles on public test roads — so far. It’s competing with the likes of GM Cruise, Uber ATG, Aurora, TuSimple, and Embark.

Waymo CTO and VP of Engineering, Dmitri Dolgov image: Waymo

Although most companies in the driverless vehicle scene are yet to launch fully commercial services, the industry has witnessed huge investments as of late. GM Cruise just raised $1.15 billion at a $19 billion valuation, on the heels of a $1 billion raise by Uber ATG at a $7.25 billion post-money. valuation. TuSimple also raised $95 million earlier this year at a $1 billion valuation.

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