Autonomous Vehicle News
Amazon.com Inc's self-driving vehicle unit, Zoox, said that it successfully carried passengers on a public road in its fully autonomous vehicle on public roads for the first time. To date, Zoox’s public-road testing has been limited to a fleet of retrofitted gas-powered cars that carry sensors powering the self-driving technology. Last week, the @CA_DMV granted our permit to operate our robotaxi autonomously on public roads. https://t.co/PIPmdRpQ07 pic.twitter.com/pxYHGM4W0x — Zoox (@zoox) February 8, 2023Zoox, which Amazon acquired in 2020 for an undisclosed sum, is racing a collection of startups, including General Motors Co.’s Cruise, to deploy robotaxis. On February 3, Cruise said it had received permission from California’s department of motor vehicles to test its own Origin shuttle on the state’s public roads.