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Lyft to Test Self-Driving Cars in California

GovTech: Lyft, the ride-hailing service, will begin testing its fully autonomous technology at GoMentum Station in Concord, Calif., the site of the largest secure, self-driving car testing ground in the United States.

“It’s a huge deal for us,” said Randy Iwasaki, executive director of the Contra Costa Transportation Authority (CCTA), which manages the GoMentum Station, located near the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California. “This TNC (transportation network company) partnership is really huge for us. Because those companies, plus our shared, autonomous-vehicles kind of vision, is going to allow for … just a change in the way we move people in Contra Costa County. It’s a shift toward mobility as a service.”

The announcement comes as other companies, like Waymo and Uber, also move forward with developing self-driving car technology for the ride-hailing future.

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