Autonomous Vehicle News
"This is an amazing milestone for Zoox and the autonomous vehicle industry as a whole," said chief executive Aicha Evans. The service was tested during the weekend and will be made available to Zoox employees beginning in the next few months, according to the company. "Getting to be the world's first passenger in a robotaxi with no manual controls on open public road...was one of the highlights of my life," Zoox co-founder and chief technology officer Jesse Levinson said in the post. Zoox robotaxis have no steering wheels or pedals for human drivers. ** An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of Amazon's self-driving vehicle unit in paragraph two.