During CES in January, around 400 people—including PCMag's Editor-in-Chief Dan Costa—got to ride around Las Vegas in a self-driving BMW 5 Series, courtesy of Lyft and its partner Aptiv. Now, even more people will have the chance to hitch a ride around Sin City in a car that can drive itself.

The companies this week put 30 autonomous vehicles on the road in Las Vegas to shuttle around members of the general public. Lyft riders in the city now have the option to hail one of these self-driving vehicles, which are outfitted with Aptiv's autonomous driving technology, when traveling between "high-demand locations."

Like PCMag's CES test-drive, a "highly trained safety driver" will sit behind the wheel, ready to take over if the car gets into any trouble.

"With Aptiv's autonomous driving technology deployed throughout Las Vegas and broadly accessible through the Lyft app, a wide range of consumers will be able to share the experience of autonomous vehicles in a complex urban environment," Aptiv President and CEO Kevin Clark said in a statement. "More importantly, the resulting knowledge and data will allow us to further refine our autonomous driving capabilities and strengthen our portfolio of industry-leading active safety solutions."

During the initial pilot at CES, Lyft and Aptiv's self-driving service earned an average customer rating of 4.99 out of five stars, the companies said. PCMag's Costa was among the first in line to try out the service and said he was "almost disappointed by the simplicity of the demo—it just worked."

"It seems strange to personify the driving, but the car seemed confident—there was never a time when it didn't know what it was doing," Costa wrote.

Rival Uber, meanwhile, was forced to suspend autonomous drive-tests after a fatal accident in Arizona.