Online retailer has been aggressively expanding into driverless technology and bought the startup Zoox
Zoox, a self-driving vehicle owned by Amazon, is seen at the company's factory in Fremont, California.Zoox, a self-driving vehicle owned by Amazon, is seen at the company's factory in Fremont, California.First published on Tue 14 Feb 2023 18.43 GMT, using employees as passengers, as the tech behemoth moves closer to a commercial service for the general public.the self-driving startup
Zoox for $1.3bn in 2020. A test conducted on 11 February saw the robotaxis successfully drive between two Zoox buildings a mile apart at its headquarters in Foster City, California. It was part of the launch of a no-cost employee shuttle service that will also help the company refine its technology. Zoox’s robotaxi – built as a fully autonomous vehicle from scratch rather than retrofitting existing cars for self-driving – comes without a steering wheel or pedals and has room for four passengers, with two facing each other.
An autonomous Zoox car during a test drive through Lombard Street in San Francisco, California, in October.“Putting the vehicle on [an] open public road and validating our approach to all of the different requirements, including regulatory, is a big step and we would not have done it unless internally we were already looking at the line of sight for going commercial,” chief executive Aicha Evans told reporters on a conference call.
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