Speaker 1: Ford originally said it needed to delay its robo taxi service until 2022 admit the coronavirus pandemic, but a big first step will happen by the end of this year on Wednesday Ford announced it will deploy the first self-driving cars with partner Argo AI on ride hailing service Lyfts network. The first cars will land in Miami. The automaker said this first step is one of many to commercialize autonomous ride hauling services, many [00:00:30] companies and automakers promise these services for years now. But Waymo is the only one to actually pick riders up and charge them affair. And that's only outside of Phoenix, Arizona far form nationwide for Ford in Argo AI, it will create defined service zones in Miami and Lyft users will have the option to choose an autonomous Ford escape to pick them up. When the car arrives, there will be a human safety driver on board and the vehicle will then take riders to their destination. Speaker 1: [00:01:00] The companies didn't share details on what these service zones will be or how much of the city they'll span, essentially like Waymo. The cars will operate in a geo fence to ensure the cars only operate in mapped areas for them to understand fully if there's any dose of reality that comes with this announcement. It's the fact that Ford said this step us the way to launch 1000 autonomous vehicles on Lyft's network over the next five years. That's it just 1000 [00:01:30] cars by 2026. This is an industry that thought we'd be deploying autonomous cars at scale by well now nevertheless, four plans to launch another small fleet of cars in Austin, Texas in 2022, as it continues to expand its work with lift and Argo AI.