Playing Catch-Up to Uber on Self-Driving, Lyft Teams Up With Partners -br By MIKE ISAACJUNE 6, 2017br SAN FRANCISCO — Uber is spending millions of dollars to make self-driving cars on its ride-hailing network a reality.br Uber, for example, has hundreds of engineers in Pittsburgh, San Franciscobr and Toronto working on its self-driving technology, and it has outfitted Volvos and Ford Fusion vehicles with cameras, lasers and other hardware for research purposes.br “And since it’s very early in the development life cycle of autonomous vehicles, we’ll explore many partnerships to learn withbr and from partners to help figure out what passengers want.”br The agreement is part of Lyft’s broader move into autonomous car-sharing.br Lyft on Tuesday announced an agreement with nuTonomy, a self-driving car start-up, to eventuallybr bring thousands of nuTonomy’s autonomous vehicles to Lyft’s ride-hailing network.