Lyft and GM roll out car rental programme to attract more drivers


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 15 Mar 2016

Maya Jackson, a Lyft driver from Sacramento, navigates a Lyft app on a smartphone during a photo opportunity in San Francisco, California February 3, 2016. REUTERS/Stephen Lam

SAN FRANCISCO: Drivers for ride-hailing app Lyft will no longer face the imperative of owning a car under a rental programme launched on March 14 with General Motors Co. 

The initiative is the first to come out of a two-month-old partnership between the automotive giant and ride service upstart, and is Lyft's latest move to get more drivers on its app as it continues to trail ride-hailing behemoth Uber. 

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