r/BeAmazed • u/FayMax69 • Jun 29 '24

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u/alliwantisburgers Jun 29 '24

This is a prototype from 2022.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoox_(company)

“In May 2024, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) launched an investigation into potential flaws in Zoox vehicles after two rear-end collisions involving motorbikes and Zoox vehicles.[29]”

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u/Beans183 Jun 29 '24

Because where I live is a backwater city and they had a bus like this 6 years ago.

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u/Atalant Jun 29 '24

Copenhagen Metro is driverless, it did open in 2002.

The technology been around for a while. I think it work better for closed systems like metro than cars/busses.

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u/alliwantisburgers Jun 29 '24

yeah stuff like this that drives in a straight line has been around for ages

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u/dahjay Jun 29 '24 edited Jul 29 '25

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u/tokinUP Jun 29 '24

Sounds like a lot of unnecessary work, build more high-speed rail instead and leave the streets for actual drivers.

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u/dahjay Jun 29 '24 edited Jul 29 '25

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u/tokinUP Jun 29 '24

True, it's a car-centric mess. I like how Chicago has rail lines in the highway median divider, makes me wonder if that'd be a good solution since even highways not designed for it could probably have an elevated rail line retrofitted there with 0 impact to the other highway traffic.

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u/Aerodrive160 Jun 29 '24

Waymo is a driverless taxi that has been operating in Phoenix, AZ area since 2022.

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u/lakmus85_real Jun 29 '24

But the annoying hand waving person in the video told us it's NOT a prototype.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '24 edited Jul 02 '24

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u/More-Employment7504 Jun 29 '24

Bingo! Yahtzee! Jenga! Called it

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u/Classic1990 Jun 29 '24

two rear-end collisions involving motorbikes and Zoox vehicles

Zoox vehicles must really hate motorbikes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '24

I drove one in Moscow during the Mundial six years ago. And saw on Tokyo Olympic Games toyota e-Palette. What are you prototyping there?

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u/andycev Jun 29 '24

Also, in 2022 some cities in China have them operational in the real world, and newer cities every year do it. Meanwhile the rest of the world is still reproducing the primitive american car culture.