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Amazon is preparing to make up to 10,000 robotasses per year in a temptular plant near Silicon Valley while preparing to challenge Waymo, leader of the independent cabin. Elon Musk, Ceo di Tesla, is also in the running to join the autonomous breed.The robotaxi factory of 220,000 square feet (20,440 square meters) announced a new phase of Amazon’s thrust on Wednesday in a technological frontier that started taking shape in 2009, when Waymo was launched as a secret project within Google.
Amazon started watching the market five years ago when he paid $ 1.2 billion for the Zoox autonomous startup, which will be the brand behind a robotaxi service that plans to start transporting customers to Las Vegas at the end of this year before expanding to San Francisco next year.
Zoox, conceived in 2014, will try to reach Waymo, who began to manage the robotassi in Phoenix almost five years ago, then charged rides in San Francisco in 2023 before expanding to Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. Waymo claims to have more than 10 million paid runs, while other aspiring rivals such as Amazon and Tesla are still perfecting their autonomous -driving technology while dealing with other challenges, such as accelerating their fleet. Amazon feels as if he has faced this problem with the Zoox production plant that extends on the equivalent of three and a half football fields located in Hayward, California, about 17 miles (27 kilometers) north of a factory where Tesla creates some of the electric vehicles that Musk believes that in the end it will be able to operate without a driver behind the wheel.
Since he moved to the former manufacturing factory by bus in 2023, Zoox has transformed it into a high -tech structure in which his square and gondola -like vehicles are put together and tested along an assembly line of 21 stations. For now, Zoox is making only one robotaxi per day, but by the next year he hopes to try them at the rhythm of three vehicles per hour.
By 2027, Zoox hopes to make 10,000 robotasses per year in Hayward for a fleet that hopes to bring other important markets to other markets, including Miami, Los Angeles and Atlanta. Although Zoox will assign its robotasses to the United States, about half of the parties is imported from the outside of the country, according to the company’s officials.
“It is an exciting moment to go to this trip,” said the CEO of Zoox Aicha Evans during a Tuesday of the Robotaxi factory that hosted with Jesse Levinson, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the company.
Although Zoox will be late, he believes that he can attract passengers with vehicles that look more like carriages than cars with seats for a maximum of four passengers. On the contrary, Waymo builds its autonomous driving technology on cars made by other main car manufacturers, making it seem its robotaxi similar to vehicles driven by humans. Zoox doesn’t even care to put a steering wheel in his robotasses.
While continuing to test his robotasses in Las Vegas, Zoox recently hit a partnership to ran to the guests of Reorts World. He is also testing his robotassi in San Francisco, where Waymo has already transformed the cars without driver into an everyday site in a city that has been renowned for the cable cars since 1870. While the tests in San Francisco last month, a small collision between a Zoox Robotaxi and a person who ride an electric scooter last month pushed the company to emit a volunteer to update his technology to update his technology to update his technology to update his technology to update his technology to update his technology autonomous guidance. No accidents were reported in the accident.
Tesla is also going to compete against Waymo, although it is not clear when Musk will make sure that his long promise promises to build the largest robotaxi service in the world. Musk has not yet given up on the objective, even if his current ambitions are more modest than they were in 2019. When he expected that Tesla would manage a fleet of 1 million robotes now. Currently it aims at a limited implementation of Tesla Robotaxis in Austin this Sunday, even if that date could change because Musk is “super paranoid on safety”.
On the contrary, Zoox is planning to manage 500 to 1,000 of its robotasses in small and medium -sized markets and about 2,000 robotasses in the main cities where in the end work, according to Evans. The company thinks that every robotaxi produced in its Hayward plan should be on the road for about five years, or about 500,000 miles.
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