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Amazon’s Zoox robotaxis to drive faster, farther, at night in Las Vegas – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Zoox also operates retrofitted self-driving Toyota Highlanders in Seattle, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Foster City, California. It also expanded the Las Vegas area in which the cars can travel to five miles from one mile, it said in a statement.

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Amazon’s Zoox to begin testing robotaxis in Austin, Miami – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Zoox will deploy its retrofitted Toyota Highlander test fleet in small areas near the business and entertainment districts of the two cities, it said in a statement. Austin and Miami will mark the fourth and fifth public testing locations for Zoox, having already established operations in San Francisco, Las Vegas and Seattle.

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US regulator opens safety probe into Waymo robotaxis – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The NHTSA on Monday opened a similar inquest into Amazon-owned Zoox after receiving two reports that the company’s autonomously-operated Toyota Highlanders were rear-ended after they pulled on the brakes too quickly. Zoox has been testing its robotaxis in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Foster City, California.

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Toyota broadly outlines next-generation Prius; developing wireless inductive charging for the plug-in model; bullish on hydrogen

Green Car Congress

That vehicle will make its North American debut at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. We believe that’s a “world’s best” and about twice that of the fuel stack we have been using for the Highlander fuel cell hybrid vehicle that many of you have driven. qdash;Satoshi Ogiso.

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