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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