Liam Denning, Columnist

Lyft and GM Are Doing It For the Kids

Robo-taxis don't necessarily mean the end of carmakers.

January 4, 2016 at 8:34 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

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General Motors and Lyft are teaming up to bring you something special: time away from your kids.

Surveying consumers in 2014 about why they might get an autonomous or semi-autonomous car, the Boston Consulting Group found that about 10 percent of respondents cited the possibility of not having to drop their children off at school themselves.