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Amazon’s Zoox robotaxis service to give free rides in San Francisco as its expansion accelerates
Zoox invites select San Francisco residents to take free rides in its fully driverless robotaxis while refining service and pursuing federal approval to charge fares.
- Zoox, an Amazon-owned company, launched a free robotaxi service in San Francisco, allowing select users to hail its driverless vehicles.
- Unlike other robotaxi services, Zoox's vehicle has no steering wheel, as the company designed its robotaxis from the ground up.
- Waymo, Alphabet's robotaxi service, opened its service to all San Francisco riders in June 2024 and has provided over 10 million paid rides since launching in Phoenix in 2020.
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Amazon-Owned Autonomous Taxi Company Zoox Begins Offering Public Rides
Zoox, whose funny-looking, steering-wheel-free, four-seater robocars have been roving about San Francisco for a while now, is now launching its first program to give rides to the general public.We're going to start seeing more than just those white Waymos zipping around city streets in SF, as competitor Zoox takes the next step toward its expansion into becoming a general-consumer taxi service. Zoox announced the Zoox Explorer program for early-…
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