INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Sameer Qureshi has left his role as a senior manager of Tesla Autopilot Programs and has joined Lyft, according to his LinkedIn
We first saw the news over on Electrek.Tesla declined to comment, but Lyft confirmed Qureshi joined the team this week.
At Lyft, Qureshi is
now director of product for autonomous driving, specifically focused on Lyft Level 5 self-driving car efforts
To be clear, Level 5 is when a car requires no human to be at the wheel
In fact, Level 5 prohibits humans from intervening, even if they want to.
At Tesla, Qureshi was &responsible for the entire Autopilot
software stack across all of Tesla cars and platforms& for more than one year, he wrote on his LinkedIn
To be clear, Qureshi was not an executive, VP or director, but one of 4,000 managers at Tesla
Prior to his most recent role at Tesla, Qureshi served as senior manager for software and firmware programs at Tesla for more than two
years.
Lyft first launched its self-driving car division in July 2017
Since then, Lyft has partnered with tier-one automotive industry supplier Magna on autonomous vehicle technology
Magna also invested $200 million in Lyft in exchange for an equity stake.
