NHTSA Clears The Way For Zoox Robotaxis Without Driver Controls

Zoox, Amazon’s driverless taxi venture, has been cleared by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to deploy its current fleet of steering wheel-less electric pods for demonstration purposes.

The federal agency issued an exemption to federal vehicle safety standards and closed a probe it opened in 2022 to look into whether the self-driving EVs, which lack pedals and a steering wheel, had met said safety requirements when the company self-certified the vehicle.

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