Johana Bhuiyan

Users of the car-sharing company will be able to hail autonomous cars.

The iPhone maker needs someone to help it in the fast-moving autonomous vehicle arena.

The round was led by existing investor SoftBank with participation from new and old investors in the U.S. and China.

Automakers and other self-driving companies will have to meet a 15-point safety assessment under the new policies.

Expect to see semi-autonomous vehicles driving on fixed routes by 2017 in a subscription model.

To date, Lyft drivers have cashed out $500 million since the company launched its Express Pay feature.

Jiajun Zhu, who helped co-found Google’s self-driving project, and Dave Ferguson have just launched an autonomous car company called Nuro.ai.

But as the tech develops, self-driving cars may make more economic sense.

And he needs your help to work it out.