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Updated Tue, March 24, 2026 astatine 8:15 AM CDT 1 min read
March 24 (Reuters) - Zoox, Amazon's (AMZN) self-driving unit, said connected Tuesday it volition grow its robotaxi service successful San Francisco and Las Vegas, and statesman investigating its purpose-built robotaxis successful Austin and Miami, marking its broadest propulsion yet into the U.S. autonomous ride-hailing market.
Alphabet's Waymo leads the robotaxi market, portion Tesla has the fiscal resources and manufacturing standard to expand its constricted work in Austin, Texas, and plans to ramp up rapidly crossed the United States this year.
Meanwhile, Zoox plans to importantly turn its footprint successful San Francisco, focusing connected dense, high-demand neighborhoods such arsenic the Marina, Chinatown and the Embarcadero, portion expanding in Las Vegas to screen much hotels and amusement destinations on the Strip.
The institution volition besides statesman operating its purpose-built robotaxis connected nationalist roads successful Austin and Miami, starting with rides for employees, their families and friends earlier gradually opening to the nationalist later this year.
Zoox said it has logged astir 2 cardinal autonomous miles and carried much than 350,000 riders, arsenic it introduces caller features aimed astatine reducing hold times and improving thrust acquisition in a crowded and fast-evolving sector.
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(Reporting by Akash Sriram successful Bengaluru and Abhirup Roy successful San Francisco; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri)
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