Amazon’s First Autonomous Taxi Hits the Road

One of the world’s largest e-commerce platforms Amazonis preparing to enter a brand new sector in the near future. Because Amazon’s autonomous vehicle company Zooxstarted testing its small autonomous taxis on the roads in parts of the USA. The autonomous taxi, which has been tested with public areas, is currently quite has given good results.

The autonomous taxi, with a maximum speed of 65 km / h, does not work continuously. Saturday and Sunday only during the daytime Autonomous taxis that can be used will not be used in cases of adverse weather conditions. Zoox officials, announcing that they received approval from the US authorities, said that the autonomous taxi on a certain route They underlined that it carries passengers dozens of times.

Amazon’s fully autonomous taxi has not been involved in a single accident

Zoox’s autonomous taxi does not have any steering wheels or pedals. The vehicle is currently traveling from a certain point to another certain point. can go automatically. Yes, for now, it serves like a city bus… In the statements made by Jesse Levinson, one of the founders of Zoox, the strangely designed taxi had nothing to do with the test process. had no problemsIt was stated that despite the other vehicle and pedestrian traffic in the vicinity, it did not even cause a single accident.

Zoox’s autonomous taxi is a vehicle equipped with sensors. In this context; vehicle and pedestrian traffic instantaneously checked and Zoox is acting accordingly. Let’s not go without mentioning that: Although Zoox has now started to use its self-developed autonomous vehicle, the company’s one equipped with the same sensors. Toyota Highlander is also using. Zoox aims to use vehicles developed and produced from scratch as fully autonomous, instead of vehicles that are essentially ‘transformed passenger cars’.

A short promotional video demonstrating Zoox’s capabilities