# Zoox

<https://zoox.com/>

### Ownership

Amazon

### Status

Live in [Las Vegas](https://rollout.autoura.com/cities/north-america/las-vegas).

Will next launch in [San Francisco](https://rollout.autoura.com/cities/north-america/san-francisco) & [Seattle](https://rollout.autoura.com/cities/north-america/seattle) (San Francisco ahead of Seattle). Testing in [Austin](https://rollout.autoura.com/cities/north-america/austin), [Miami](https://rollout.autoura.com/cities/north-america/miami) & [Los Angeles](https://rollout.autoura.com/cities/north-america/los-angeles)

**Source**: CEO Interview [https://www.forbes.com/sites/dianebrady/2023/01/02/zoox-cto-jesse-levinson-the-c-suite-interview/](https://www.forbes.com/sites/dianebrady/2023/01/02/zoox-cto-jesse-levinson-the-c-suite-interview/?sh=195ecb146a01)

"We’ve deployed our purpose-built robotaxi in Las Vegas, marking another big step towards commercial launch" - **Source**: <https://zoox.com/journal/Las-Vegas/> (June 2023)

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First off, we’ve expanded our Las Vegas geofence: the virtual boundary we operate our purpose-built vehicles in. This geofence spans approximately five miles from our Las Vegas headquarters to the south end of the Strip along multiple routes. It’s larger and more complicated, with three-lane roads, required lane changes, unprotected right turns onto high-speed roadways, and double-right and left-hand turn lanes. Driving in these larger areas exposes our robotaxis to the busiest conditions they’ve ever encountered and provides invaluable data and learnings as we continue to scale.

**Source**: <https://zoox.com/journal/zoox-update-03-14>

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### Vehicle

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*Capacity 4 people, no luggage*

The car can travel up to 75 *miles per* hour and can run up to 16 hours on a single *charge.*

**Source**: <https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/14/amazons-self-driving-company-zoox-unveils-autonomous-robotaxi.html>

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### Engineering

Good update of where at in August 2022 (San Francisco & Las Vegas focus)

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### Vision

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### Progress

*June 2022*

Jesse Levinson, the Zoox founder and CTO, told the audience at Amazon’s re:MARS event here Tuesday night that Zoox “recently completed a critical checkpoint that we haven’t talked about publicly yet.”

Specifically, he said, the Zoox vehicle operated “with no one inside, no chase vehicle, and no emergency stop, all on open, private roads with non-Zoox agents, including pedestrians, cyclists, cars and trucks.”

The vehicle satisfied safety requirements in these tests, which means it “can operate in an unstructured environment at human-plus safety levels,” he said. “And we’re almost ready to do that on public roads.”

**Source**: <https://www.geekwire.com/2022/amazons-zoox-completes-critical-checkpoint-in-robotaxi-testing-and-rollout/>

*July 2022*

"The next steps are now to test the vehicle, which has been redesigned from the ground up to seat four people, has no driver’s seat, and can drive in both directions, on public roads. This is to begin next year (2023) in San Francisco, where adapted test vehicles are already on the road.

Starting from these vehicle tests, a successively larger fleet will then be on the road with passengers, which will then be transferred to a robotaxi service."

**Source**: <https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2022/07/04/zoox-reaches-important-milestone/>

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### Name

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