Autonomous vehicle (AV) technology has made its way into Atlanta and is about to expand even more. Rideshare provider Lyft and AV tech firm May Mobility are partnering to bring driverless cars to users in 2025. May will soon deploy a fleet of its driverless Toyota Sienna minivans as an option for Lyft users, the early iterations of which will have operators to monitor the ride. Atlanta is far from the first city to host May’s AVs on its streets. “I think in all of our deployments that we’ve done, the reception is very positive,” David Carroll, May Mobility’s director of business development and commercial sales, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Carroll said that May’s main clientele are government agencies that have fleets, such as DOTs and transit agencies. Part of this will help with a labor shortage that government transportation entities have been facing. For the Lyft deployment in Atlanta, the main goal for May is to make a larger pool of vehicles available for users. That, in theory, should make the service more convenient and affordable. Atlanta’s program will be a pilot, Carroll said, to determine how AVs fit in that landscape.

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