Published on: 2025-06-12 08:15:00
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! It might have been a short week, but there was still plenty of news, including another Zoox recall, an update on the Stellantis-Amazon partnership, and a few startup-funding deals. One item of note: This week, I wrote about Carma Technology and its patent infringement lawsuit against Uber. This isn’t a patent troll situation, and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 01:00:26
The Amazon-owned robotaxi company Zoox has issued its second recall in a month following a collision that occurred in San Francisco. It has already submitted a voluntary software recall notice to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) after an internal review of the incident and has already deployed the software update to its fleet of 270 vehicles. According to the company's announcement, an unoccupied Zoox robotaxi was struck by an electric scooter after braking at an inters
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 08:26:16
Amazon 's Zoox robotaxi unit issued a voluntary recall of its software for the second time in a month following a recent crash in San Francisco. On May 8, an unoccupied Zoox robotaxi was turning at low speed when it was struck by an electric scooter rider after braking to yield at an intersection. The person on the scooter declined medical attention after sustaining minor injuries as a result of the collision, Zoox said. "The Zoox vehicle was stopped at the time of contact," the company said i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 16:36:30
Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company Zoox has issued its second voluntary software recall in a month, following a collision between one of its robotaxis and an e-scooter rider in San Francisco on May 8. The latest incident involved an unoccupied Zoox vehicle operating at low speed, which the company says was struck by the e-scooter after braking to yield at an intersection. Just weeks earlier, the company recalled about 270 vehicles after a Las Vegas crash between a Zoox robotaxi and a pass
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 16:00:09
Table of Contents Zoox's Self-Driving Test Fleet Is Coming to Atlanta Zoox, the Amazon-owned self-driving company, is expanding its test fleet to Atlanta. It'll soon begin testing its autonomous technology there aboard retrofitted Toyota Highlander SUVs, before residents eventually get the chance to climb aboard a purpose-built robotaxi. Atlanta is Zoox's seventh test market. It announced its expansion to Los Angeles in April, and also operates its test fleet in the San Francisco Bay Area, Las
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 16:21:51
Amazon’s autonomous vehicle unit Zoox is about to start mapping and gathering data in Atlanta, Georgia, a precursor to testing its self-driving vehicles and eventually offering public rides in the city. Atlanta will become the seventh city in the U.S. where Zoox is testing its vehicles. The company announced its testing plans just one day after Waymo — along with partner Uber — said it would start offering rides in its own robotaxis to early access users in Atlanta ahead of a larger public laun
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 20:12:14
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Amazon-owned Zoox says it issued a software recall for all 270 of its vehicles after an unoccupied robotaxi in Las Vegas crashed into a passenger vehicle on April 8th, Reuters reports. The update rolled out between April 16th and 17th to address a risky situation that could arise when the vehicle operating at over 40mph closed in on another ve
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 03:54:21
The company said all its vehicles on the road have now received the update. Zoox, the Amazon-owned robotaxi company, announced a voluntary software recall for 270 of its vehicles. The company had paused its driverless vehicle operations for a review following an incident last month where a Zoox car and a passenger car collided in Las Vegas. According to the report filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the crash did not cause any injuries. CNBC reports that Zoox has resu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 12:55:01
The company said all its vehicles on the road have now received the update. Zoox, the Amazon-owned robotaxi company, announced a voluntary software recall for its vehicles. The company had paused its driverless vehicle operations for a review following an incident last month where a Zoox car and a passenger car collided in Las Vegas. According to the report filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the crash did not cause any injuries. CNBC reports that Zoox has resumed usu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 12:06:45
Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company owned by Amazon, paused its driverless testing program for more than a week and issued a voluntary recall of its software following a crash in Las Vegas, according to the company and a filing with federal safety regulators. The April 8 crash, which involved an unoccupied Zoox vehicle and a passenger car, prompted the company to issue a recall for about 270 vehicles equipped with a specific version of its automated driving system. The recall number doesn’t re
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 20:59:19
Amazon 's Zoox issued a software recall for 270 of its robotaxis after a crash in Las Vegas last month, the company said Tuesday. The recall surrounds a defect with the vehicle's automated driving system that could cause it to inaccurately predict the movement of another car, increasing "the risk of a crash," according to a report submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Zoox submitted the recall after an April 8 incident in Las Vegas where an unoccupied Zoox robotaxi c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-07 04:28:39
Amazon’s autonomous vehicle company Zoox has begun testing its robotaxis in Los Angeles . It has deployed a small fleet of retrofitted test vehicles throughout the city for the purposes of mapping and data-collection. They won’t be available for public rides just yet. Lidar, camera, action! LA, we're coming your way. Our test fleet is expanding to the Los Angeles metro area. Give us a wave if you see us around. 🎥🌇🌴 Learn more: https://t.co/cLNuc1LuAt. pic.twitter.com/VgwZc8U6oJ — Zoox (@zoox
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-07 07:30:00
Table of Contents Zoox Is Bringing Its Driverless Test Fleet to Los Angeles Zoox, the self-driving company owned by Amazon, is making its Los Angeles debut. On Tuesday, the company said it's expanding its test fleet to Southern California, meaning riders there will eventually be able to hail a ride in one of its pod-like robotaxis, which don't have a steering wheel, pedals or driver's seat. Los Angeles joins six other locations where Zoox is testing its self-driving technology: the San Francis
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-07 12:30:00
Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous vehicle unit, is deploying a small fleet of retrofitted test vehicles on the streets of Los Angeles starting Tuesday – a modest, yet meaningful step as the company inches toward offering public rides in Las Vegas and San Francisco later this year. The data-collection effort marks Zoox’s entrance into its sixth city and lays the groundwork for a future robotaxi service. Unlike rival Waymo, which is already providing paid robotaxi rides in LA, Zoox is still in the early
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-08 22:26:34
Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous driving unit, has issued a voluntary recall for 258 vehicles due to issues with its autonomous driving system that could cause unexpected hard breaking. The recall follows a preliminary investigation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) last May after the agency received two reports of incidents in which motorcyclists collided with the back of Zoox vehicles — Toyota Highlanders equipped with Zoox technology. The initial investigation found th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-09 03:26:34
Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous driving unit, has issued a voluntary recall for 258 vehicles due to issues with its autonomous driving system that could cause unexpected hard breaking. The recall follows a preliminary investigation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) last May after the agency received two reports of incidents in which motorcyclists collided with the back of Zoox vehicles — Toyota Highlanders equipped with Zoox technology. The initial investigation found th
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