Amazon’s weird toaster-shaped robotaxi hits the road in a “first” for the company

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The DMV is permitting Zoox to do limited testing.

According to Levinson, the Zoox vehicle drove a two-mile loop “dozens of times” on open roads with passengers in the vehicle. “Our vehicle never got stuck, paused, or had any issues whatsoever while driving,” he wrote. “As you’d expect on open public roads, we encountered lots of vehicles, pedestrians, bikes, etc. The route has multiple traffic lights, left/right turns, unprotected cross traffic, and speeds up to 35 MPH.

Levinson also addressed questions about Zoox’s claim to be the first to deploy a purpose-built autonomous vehicle on public roads, considering Google had ferried passengers in its purpose-built Firefly vehicle on open roads more than five years ago.Google’s prototype wasn’t built to comply with federal safety standards, nor could it exceed 25 mph, Levinson said. Firefly “was also never designed for production, as it was clearly a test/research vehicle platform ,” he added.

Zoox’s vehicle, which was first unveiled in 2020, is currently testing AVs in Seattle, Las Vegas, and the Bay Area. The company mostly uses Toyota Highlanders retrofitted with sensors and cameras as part of its fleet.

 

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They are being tested at SLAC national accelerator lab in California hella kool stuff

Well, I like the paint color

it looks like its supposed to fail

Does it have built-in Wifi? Can you hack it? Are the electronics that control the vehicle accessible from the wireless access point?

Looks like one of those cars from Westworld. Not sure if you wanna share a connotation with that

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