"California regulators still have to approve Zoox's application to charge for rides in San Francisco a clearance that Waymo received in August 2023 after overcoming safety concerns raised by city officials. Since then, Waymo's robotaxis have become a familiar sight throughout San Francisco, where some tourists now make a point of hitching a ride in a self-driving car along with hopping on one of the city's fabled cable cars that have been operating for 152 years."
"The expansion announced Tuesday will be confined to a few major San Francisco neighborhoods and limited to people who signed up on a waiting list to ride in Zoox's gondola-shaped robotaxis, which have no steering wheel. The San Francisco launch comes less than three months after the Amazon-owned robotaxi company launched its first ride-hailing service along the Las Vegas strip. But Zoox still doesn't charge people to ride in its robotaxis, something Waymo has been doing since its debut in Phoenix five years ago."
Amazon-owned Zoox will begin offering free robotaxi rides in select San Francisco neighborhoods to waiting-list members. The rides will use gondola-shaped vehicles that do not have a steering wheel. The launch follows Zoox's initial ride service along the Las Vegas strip less than three months earlier. Zoox has not yet charged fares in its services and must obtain California regulatory approval before charging in San Francisco. Waymo has charged fares since debuting in Phoenix five years ago and operates robotaxis across multiple U.S. cities while expanding routes and city coverage.
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