{"id":16624,"date":"2025-09-11T01:05:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=16624"},"modified":"2025-09-11T01:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:05:50","slug":"here-come-the-robotaxis-zoox-and-lyft-both-launch-driverless-ride-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=16624","title":{"rendered":"Here Come the Robotaxis: Zoox and Lyft Both Launch Driverless Ride Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\u201cHow do we break down the journey into bite-sized pieces, so it doesn\u2019t feel overwhelming or insurmountable?\u201d says Jesse Levinson, the cofounder and CEO of Zoox. \u201cThis moment is a huge one, but the service is still unpaid and fairly limited.\u201d Zoox launched in 2014, and though it\u2019s been testing its technology in San Francisco, at its Foster City, California, headquarters, and in Las Vegas for years, this will be the first time it\u2019s allowing anyone willing to download an app to ride. The company was acquired by Amazon in 2020<\/a> for a reported $1.2 billion.<\/p>\n

Olson, the May Mobility CEO, says he is comfortable with the company\u2019s slower launch process after watching others rush to put self-driving cars on the road. \u201cOne of the things we\u2019ve seen across the industry is that a vehicle might perform brilliantly some of the time, but then will do wildly inappropriate things in the edge cases,\u201d Olson says. He declines to say exactly when the firm would remove the safety drivers from its vehicles, or when it might expand its Lyft partnership to other areas or cities, but he says any moves the company makes will be tested and validated with real-world and simulated data. The service will scale more quickly as time goes on, he says.<\/p>\n

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