Amazon Buys Autonomous Tech Company Zoox, and Elon Musk Is Amused

• Founded in 2014, Zoox had promised to have self-driving taxis in San Francisco this year but found the project a bit more difficult than expected.
• Neither Amazon nor Zoox would give us more details on the deal, but it's worth a reported $1.2 billion and is focused on realizing fully autonomous, zero-emission ride-hailing vehicles.
• Always classy on Twitter, Tesla's CEO said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is just copying Tesla's lead with this move.

Zoox is not the best-known name in autonomous driving technology, but that hasn't stopped the company from making bold promises. The Zoox website says the company is working on fully autonomous driving with a purpose-built "symmetrical, bidirectional, zero-emissions vehicles" that will (or could, at least) be used for on-demand mobility in complex environments. The company says its technology is "driving autonomously in ways that no one else has shown. We are driving in cities and on highways. Making unprotected lefts and rights on red. Yielding to pedestrians and passing double-parked vehicles."

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