Zoox, the self-driving company owned by Amazon, is heading to the east coast. The company is expanding its testing fleet to Washington, DC, bringing the total number of areas in which it operates to eight.
To start, Zoox will deploy a handful of retrofitted Toyota Highlanders with safety drivers “in the heart of Washington, DC,” Zoox said in a Tuesday blog post. That testing fleet will manually map a specific area before moving onto autonomous testing, which is slated for later this year.
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