Autonomous Vehicles

Zoox has been testing their autonomous driving system using retrofitted Toyota Highlanders. It was the first company to gain approval for providing self-driving transport services to the public in California, and tests have been ongoing in San Francisco, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. Zoox’s outlook is focued on developing fully autonomous driving systems that will be applied in purpose built vehicles for on-demand mobility. In other words, Zoox applies its self-driving system to vehicles that are built from the scratch....

As much as we hear about smart and self-driving vehicles these days, they have yet to make it to mass market. Certainly, there are certain cars in the EV market with intelligent capabilities; some of them will more or less drive themselves, at least in some situations. And we know that there are cars in development that can fully handle themselves. As of 2020 though, the technology isn’t quite where it needs to be to inspire mass market adoption (let alone changes to laws and regulations that would make fully autonomous vehicles legal)....