00:00Amazon's Zoox is preparing to launch public robo-taxi testing in Austin and Miami later this year,
00:06starting with employees and their circles before opening a public wait list
00:10as it races to close the gap with Alphabet's Waymo,
00:14which already delivers 400,000 paid rides per week across six cities.
00:19The company is also expanding its existing San Francisco coverage fourfold
00:24and plans to serve high-traffic Las Vegas venues like The Sphere.
00:28While a partnership with Uber will make its vehicles bookable through the RideHail app this summer.
00:34Zoox's biggest obstacles remain launching a paid service and securing NHTSA approval
00:40to operate up to 2,500 autonomous vehicles commercially,
00:44with a decision expected after a comment period that began March 11th.
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