Lyft has confirmed its partnership with Bee Maps, a decentralized mapping platform built on Hivemapper infrastructure, to enhance its internal mapping capabilities. This collaboration, which began in 2024, allows Lyft to source street-level mapping data to improve routing and navigation as part of its autonomous vehicle strategy. Bee Maps, which operates on a crypto-incentivized model, relies on global contributors who upload street imagery using AI-powered dashcams. Although Bee Maps promotes crowdsourced data from drivers, Lyft's involvement is limited to licensing mapping data without contributions from its drivers or vehicles. This partnership highlights Lyft's ongoing commitment to modernizing mapping systems away from traditional providers, continuing its prior investments in open-source mapping, like OpenStreetMap.

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