Overview
- Zoox, which disclosed the expansion Tuesday, will quadruple its San Francisco service area this spring to cover the eastern half of the city, including the Marina, North Beach, Chinatown, Pacific Heights and the Embarcadero.
- In Las Vegas, the company is adding pick-up and drop-off points at the Convention Center and most major Strip hotels, with plans to serve high-traffic events at the Sphere and T‑Mobile Arena and to begin airport testing at Harry Reid International.
- Austin and Miami will see limited deployments of Zoox’s steering‑wheel‑free robotaxis later this year that start with employees and then open to early riders from a waitlist in small service zones.
- Rides remain free under a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration demonstration exemption as the agency takes public comments on Zoox’s broader exemption request that would allow paid service, and an Uber partnership is slated to surface Zoox rides in Las Vegas this summer if approvals arrive.
- Zoox reports nearly two million autonomous miles and more than 350,000 riders to date with about 100 vehicles on public roads, and it plans to start production in Hayward later this year targeting roughly three vehicles per hour to grow capacity, alongside rider features like Bluetooth audio and a “Find My Zoox” light-and-sound cue for crowded pickups.