Zoox just redesigned its robotaxis for more comfort and less stink

The new Zoox robotaxi design takes lessons from half a million rides. And from human nature.

In the more than 2.5 million miles Zoox robotaxis have driven in San Francisco and Las Vegas since last September, the Amazon-owned driverless vehicle service has learned a lot about operating on chaotic city streets. The company has also learned a lot about the chaos people can bring inside their vehicles.

“You’re not supposed to smoke in the vehicle. They smoke in the vehicle. And they’re smoking everything in the vehicle,” says Chris Stoffel, Zoox’s director of robot industrial design and studio engineering. “Like,........

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