Amazon’s New Robotaxi Has No Steering Wheel, But It Can Drive for 16 Hours Straight

Riding around in a robotic taxi may take some time to become commonplace, and many potential passengers will likely wonder about safety. The vehicles are outfitted with all kinds of tech to avoid collisions and other accidents; the top of the taxis have six LIDARs distributed over the surface, along with multiple cameras and radars on the outer body. The sensor fields overlap so that the car’s “eyes” don’t have any blind spots, and Zoox says they can see objects that are almost 500 feet away. The inside of the cars also have airbags that, according the Zoox’s website, “cushion your head, neck, and chest in a totally new way.”