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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. Those resemble toaster ovens on wheels and lack manual controls inside, like steering wheels, pedals and gear shifters. m)after she was hit by a human-driven car.

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NYSERDA awards $4.6M to 17 transportation projects; support for Syracuse U supercritical diesel injection project

Green Car Congress

Other projects selected include: Brooklyn Motorized Corp. New York Water Taxi (Brooklyn) seeks to continue work on the analysis and design of a vessel-docking system that would end the need for ferry operators to run their engines at high speed while loading and unloading passengers. NYSERDA funding: $50,000. NYSERDA funding: $500,000.

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