Robotaxi, self-driving car from Amazon's Zoox, tested on public road for first time | Watch

Zoox, an Amazon-owned startup that develops autonomous vehicles, has announced it carried out a successful test of its Robotaxi last week, in an exercise that saw the electric vehicle move on a public road for the first time. In the Feb 11 test, Robotaxi drove itself between two buildings at Zoox's headquarters in Foster City, California, the startup said. The self-driving car, which covered a distance of one mile, carried the company's employees as passengers. According to Zoox, Robotaxi has been built as a fully autonomous vehicle from scratch, and not developed by retrofitting existing cars for self-driving. To commercialise the technology, the startup aims to launch an app-based ride-hailing service in cities in San Francisco (also in California) and Las Vegas (Nevada).