Amazon’s Zoox robotaxi begins free robotaxi rides in Las Vegas

Amazon’s subsidiary company, Zoox, offered free robotaxi rides to the public on and around the Las Vegas Strip on ￰1￱ initiative was launched in preparation for state approval to collect fares and compete with other driverless car companies, including Alphabet’s Waymo and Tesla. Amazon’s robotaxi company plans to use a purpose-built vehicle that resembles a toaster on ￰2￱ taxis will have zero manual controls, including a steering wheel or ￰3￱ using the robotaxi will also sit facing each other since it features two rows of seats that face each ￰4￱ hopes to get feedback from its free robotaxi rides 1/2 Las Vegas, let’s ride. We’re excited to announce that our service has launched in Las ￰5￱ are you waiting for?

Run, don’t walk (to ride). 🥳 Head to our Journal for all the details: ￰0￱ — Zoox (@zoox) September 10, 2025 The cars also come with floor-to-ceiling windows that give passengers a clear view of their surroundings, while the interior is designed to enable easy conversations between ￰6￱ chief executive Aicha Evans maintained that the robotaxis are not retrofitted ￰7￱ also acknowledged that the robotaxis aims to offer a differentiating experience for people to get to understand and get used to ￰8￱ expects the initiative of free rides will give the company feedback on its ￰9￱ added that the firm’s driverless cabs are good for the community and the riders, which is good for ￰10￱ robotaxi industry has faced a tough commercial environment, with heightened regulations, federal investigations, and public ￰11￱ sector has also seen high investments from certain companies, forcing many fledgling robotaxi firms to close ￰12￱ acquired its subsidiary nearly five years ago for around $1.3 ￰13￱ has also remained one of the few companies still contending in the autonomous vehicle race, which the company hopes could generate significant returns if ￰14￱ company has offered free test loop rides out of a Las Vegas casino for the past month.

“We’ve actually been getting thousands of riders every week just from this one location, which actually quite exceeded our expectations.” -Jesse Levinson, Chief Technology Officer of ￰15￱ also confirmed that the autonomous vehicle company will soon expand its services to San ￰16￱ firm has been testing its vehicles in the state for months and is now adding riders to a wait ￰17￱ has also commenced its autonomous cab service in the San Francisco Bay Area with a safety driver who uses its self-driving ￰18￱ also operates its roughly 2,000-vehicle fleet in the same region, along with parts of LA, Phoenix, Atlanta, and ￰19￱ partnered with May Mobility to launch a pilot robotaxi service in Atlanta starting ￰20￱ ride-hailing app Lyft said its customers will be able to hail Toyota Sienna minivans retrofitted by autonomous vehicle startup May Mobility in and around Midtown ￰21￱ company also said fares for its robotaxi service will be comparable to regular rides.

Lyft’s executive vice president of driver experience, Jeremy Bird, confirmed that the initiative will begin with a small fleet and move up to ￰22￱ also hopes the fleet will reach hundreds and thousands over ￰23￱ autonomous vehicles will have trained in-vehicle operators on board to answer questions and take control if ￰24￱ Mobility’s CEO, Edwin Olson, also revealed that the vehicles feature a redundant drive-by-wire system and a 360-degree sensor suite with lidar, radar, and ￰25￱ seeks ban on driverless cars NEWS: US Republican Senator Josh Hawley wants to ban driverless cars and says he'll introduce a bill on it 'soon'. "I think we ought to ban autonomous ￰26￱ spread of driverless cars is not safe and would be terrible, terrible for working people." 40,000 Americans die… ￰27￱ — Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) September 9, 2025 On Tuesday, Senator Josh Hawley called for a ban on autonomous vehicles, arguing that the cars are not safe and would be terrible for working ￰28￱ lawmaker also plans to introduce a bill on the sector soon, but didn’t give further ￰29￱ senator has also drafted the ‘Autonomous Vehicle Safety Act’, which seeks to effectively ban driverless cars ￰30￱ legislation seeks the presence of human safety operators in any autonomous vehicle driving on a public ￰31￱ the National Conservatism conference last week, he also said that only humans should drive cars and ￰32￱ said he was more concerned about the impact that autonomous vehicles could have on jobs in professions like truck drivers, taxi drivers, and Uber ￰33￱ you're reading this, you’re already ￰34￱ there with our newsletter .