If you are surpised that GM might invest in Lyft, remember that Daimler AG (a.k.a. Mercedes & friends) OWNS Car2go. While I believe that the future of transpor

If you are surpised that GM might invest in Lyft, remember that Daimler AG (a.k.a. Mercedes & friends) OWNS Car2go. While I believe that the future of transport will involve a mixture of self driving vehicles and mass-transit (also potentially self-driving) we need to remember that this problem is being attacked from many angles. Right now in many large cities we ALREADY have a mixture of: Car ownership, human transportation (walking, biking), mass transit, car sharing (Zipcar, Car2go, Getaround), and finally RIDE sharing (Uber, Lyft). I would actually argue that car-sharing services might be some of the first to use fully-autonomous driving technologies. Imagine Zipcar getting a permit to use self-driving cars on certain known routes between their pods, or to go for maintenance/refuelling. Uber and Lyft will be among the last to use fully-autonomous technology because they already have somebody getting PAID to drive and they have the widest area to cover.