{"id":234098,"date":"2026-03-24T13:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234098\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:33:08","slug":"zoox-to-widen-us-robotaxi-footprint-with-san-francisco-vegas-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234098\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoox to widen US robotaxi footprint with San Francisco, Vegas expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">March 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Zoox, Amazon&#8217;s (<a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/AMZN\" data-ylk=\"slk:AMZN;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;AMZN&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AMZN<\/a>) self-driving unit, said on Tuesday it will expand its robotaxi \u200cservice in San Francisco and Las Vegas, \u200cand begin testing its purpose-built robotaxis in Austin and Miami, marking \u200bits broadest push yet into the U.S. autonomous ride-hailing market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Alphabet&#8217;s Waymo leads the robotaxi market, while <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/TSLA\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tesla;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Tesla&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla<\/a> has the financial resources and manufacturing scale to \u200cexpand its limited service \u2060in Austin, Texas, and plans to ramp up rapidly across the United States \u2060this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Meanwhile, Zoox plans to significantly grow its footprint in San Francisco, focusing on dense, high-demand neighborhoods \u200bsuch as \u200bthe Marina, Chinatown and \u200bthe Embarcadero, while expanding \u200cin Las Vegas to cover more hotels and entertainment destinations along the Strip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The company will also begin operating its purpose-built robotaxis on public roads in Austin and Miami, starting with rides for employees, \u200ctheir families and friends before \u200bgradually opening to the public \u200blater this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Zoox \u200bsaid it has logged nearly 2 million \u200cautonomous miles and carried more \u200bthan 350,000 \u200briders, as it introduces new features aimed at reducing wait times and improving ride experience \u200bin a crowded \u200cand fast-evolving sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Akash Sriram in \u200bBengaluru and Abhirup Roy in San Francisco; Editing \u200bby Krishna Chandra Eluri)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Zoox, Amazon&#8217;s (AMZN) self-driving unit, said on Tuesday it will expand its robotaxi \u200cservice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[8487,1421,101,103,102,104,106,105,14623],"class_list":["post-234098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-amazon","tag-las-vegas","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-zoox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}