Lyft couldn’t let Tesla and Uber have all the self-driving fun.

So the ride-sharing company’s president and cofounder, John Zimmer, has laid out a vision for the future, one that relies on self-driving cars to not only change how we get from one place to another, but also to affect how our cities are designed. Lofty goals.

In IT Blogwatch, we wait for the future to arrive.

So what is Zimmer’s vision? John Ribeiro has the background:

According to Lyft’s view of the future of transportation…Lyft rides in…robot cars will outstrip those…driven by human drivers within the next five years in the U.S.
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More…people are coming to the conclusion…that it is simpler and more affordable not to own a car…Zimmer wrote in his forecast…which he described as the “The Third Transportation Revolution.”…The first two revolutions were ushered in by canals and the railroad, and the assembly line automobile, respectively.

So how will Lyft achieve this third revolution? The BBC outlines Zimmer’s plans:

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