Category: zoox

After Math: Space toilets and long-haul hybrid pickups

Post author By Randall
Post date June 28, 2020
Categories In after math, Amazon, electrify america, Entertainment, f-150, feature, Ford, Nasa, Poop, Tech, Tesla, zoox

[ad_1] Engadget Tesla may push the boundaries of automotive technology but its production process is a bit of a mess. In a recent initial quality survey from JD Power and Associates, Tesla customers reported 250 build defects (misaligned body panels, shoddy paintwork, things of that nature) per 100 vehicles. The national average is around 166 […]

Amazon makes its biggest bet yet on self-driving by acquiring Zoox

Post author By Randall
Post date June 26, 2020
Categories In Amazon, Autonomous Vehicles, Delivery, gear, News, ride-hailing, self-driving, Tech, zoox

[ad_1] A key part of the negotiations reportedly revolved around Amazon’s commitment to continuing investment in the company. Zoox will reportedly operate independently from Amazon much as Twitch does. Zoox has nearly 1,000 employees and has been working on a self-driving “bi-directional” vehicle with no steering wheel or defined front and back end. With that […]

Self-driving startup Zoox settles with Tesla over trade secret theft

Post author By Randall
Post date April 15, 2020
Categories In autonomous, gear, lawsuit, lawsuits, News, self-driving, self-driving car, settlement, Tech, Tesla, trade secret, trade secrets, zoox

[ad_1] Tesla has prevailed in a key lawsuit over trade secret theft. Self-driving car startup Zoox has settled with Tesla and acknowledged that some of its new logistics recruits “were in possession of Tesla documents” that covered shipping and warehouse processes. Zoox agreed to both pay an unmentioned amount to Tesla and go through an […]

Waymo will test its self-driving taxis on employees in California

Post author By Randall
Post date July 3, 2019
Categories In arizona, autonomous, california, cpuc, self-driving, services, Tech, tomorrow, Transportation, waymo, zoox

[ad_1] There are some restrictions, of course. Waymo can’t charge for these rides, and every vehicle must have a safety driver behind the wheel. Interestingly, the CPUC will allow Waymo to contract out its safety driver operations to a third party — a decision prompted by Waymo’s assessment that operating and scaling a “meaningful pilot” […]

Tesla alleges self-driving car startup Zoox stole company secrets

Post author By Randall
Post date March 21, 2019
Categories In autonomous cars, Autonomous Vehicles, business, gear, services, Tech, Tesla, trade secrets, Transportation, zoox
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[ad_1] According to Tesla, the four former employees violated the terms of their contracts by forwarding documents and other information from work email addresses to personal accounts. The files included inventory documents, company schematics and other proprietary pieces of information. Tesla says it caught on to the alleged scheme when one of the former employees […]