Ride-hailing company Lyft has passed an important mile-marker in its self-driving car program by successfully delivering more than 50,000 rides, making it the most well-trafficked U.S. program of its kind. According to the company, the milestone marks a ten-fold increase over its total in August 2018 when the program announced that it reached 5,000 rides. The program currently operates 30 modified BMW's within a 20 square-mile area in Las Vegas where it delivers riders to some of the city's most heavily trodden areas, like the Las Vegas strip. Lyft has become the the largest ride-hailing program that lets users take self-driven vehicles. Lyft says the precedent is significant not just for the sheer volume of rides, but for the reported quality.

Cruise, the self-driving car company backed by General Motors, put out a video Thursday showing its self-driving electric Bolts making left turns all over San Francisco's busy streets. The company says it makes 1,400 unprotected left turns every 24 hours. For an autonomous car company it seems like this shouldn't be hailed as such an achievement, but it is. Waymo, the Google self-driving car spinoff company, notoriously struggled in Phoenix to turn left during testing on public roads. Its Chrysler Pacifica minivans were just too timid to make it through the oncoming traffic. People have noted that the robo-taxis have improved in those situations.