Lyft isn’t developing its own self-driving cars like Uber and China's Didi. The sure thing is that the U.S. company is making all its effort to sign up major names to help it bridge the gap.

Lyft announced this week that Ford is  its latest autonomous car partner. Ford joins big companies like Jaguar, GM and Alphabet’s Waymo as well startups Nutonomy and Drive.ai as Lyft allies.
Ford recently announced that it is committed to working with partners to bring its vehicles to market in ways that will actually help consumers. Dominos Pizza is one of the such early partners because of self-driving cars for pizza deliveries. It featured a man driving a car while disguised as a seat. This is the way it has been testing the social aspect of self-driving cars through an interesting trial.
Taxis is an obvious areas for the company to push into, but there isn’t likely to be any immediate impact. The duo appear to be taking a ‘slow and steady wins the race’ approach.
This statement is according to a blog post from Ford’s Sherif Marakby who heads up autonomous and electric vehicles within the automotive giant which also appeared to pour shade on Uber, which is also his former employer:
Some view the opportunity with self-driving vehicles as a race to be first. But we are focusing our efforts on building a service based around actual people’s needs and wants. We are placing a high priority on safety and dependability so customers will trust the experience that our self-driving technology will one day enable.
Uber faces a series of disasters this year, but for Lyft,2017 has been a year of progress achieved in no small measure.
Reaching one million daily rides in july, while that lags Uber’s daily average of 5.5 million worldwide, data reported by Bloomberg weeks later suggested that Lyft is actually growing faster than its rival.
 Among the disasters that eventually Led Travis Kalanik, Uber's former CEO quitting the company in June is sexual harassment in the workplace, Kalanick being caught of video the former CEO berating a driver, and the use of a controversial greyball program to side-step law enforcement officials.