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Energy: Taking a Ride in Lyft’s Self-Driving Car

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🗓️ 18 January 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Lyft and Aptiv teamed up to give 400 rides in a BMW at CES in Las Vegas, Motley Fool Analyst Taylor Muckerman got to experience it firsthand. In today’s show we discuss what it was like and what demonstrations like this show about the future of driving. We also touch on recent bad news for BP and GE.

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Welcome to Industry Focus, the show that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day and today we're talking energy in industrial.

0:18.0

It's Thursday the 18th of January today.

0:20.0

We're going to be discussing Taylor's recent trip to CES in Las Vegas, G-E-M-B-P.

0:24.7

I'm your host Sarah Priese and joining me in the studio is Motley Fall Canada, premium analyst,

0:29.5

an all-round nice guy, Taylor Mukman.

0:31.8

Taylor, thank you for joining me. How are you doing?

0:33.5

Cheerio. I'm great, how about you? I'm good. Have you called some son from Vegas?

0:39.2

No, it was actually, I think the rainiest two days in like Vegas history so I'm sure

0:45.4

they the last day sure but the first two days were quite miserable I'm trying not

0:49.5

show too much joy my voice yeah because they're all the snow right now. So what was it like?

0:55.0

Did you see anything cool? Yeah a lot of people so didn't get to see a whole heck of a lot

0:59.6

but I think that's just par for the course out there every year.

1:03.0

But got to ride in an autonomous car with lift.

1:08.0

That's very cool.

1:09.0

They partnered with BMW for the show.

1:11.0

So it's not a permanent partnership partnership it was just something that they were

1:14.8

doing for the four days of the CES conference and then autonomous cars were a big hit

1:21.9

both in terms of car manufacturers and the technology

1:26.2

providers behind the scenes.

1:28.2

And was that the first trip you've taken in an autonomous vehicle?

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