{"id":1615,"date":"2020-12-07T11:06:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T11:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1330671"},"modified":"2020-12-07T11:06:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T11:06:53","slug":"amazons-self-driving-zoox-vehicle-spotted-ahead-of-next-weeks-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=1615","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s self-driving Zoox vehicle spotted ahead of next week\u2019s reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first vehicle from \u201cself-driving car\u201d from Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company that Amazon purchased for $1.2 billion earlier this year<\/a>, has been spotted ahead of its official December 14 reveal.<\/p>\n

Images first shared on Reddit<\/a> and then on Twitter show the push-me-pull-you vehicle outside the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. By the looks of things, it was being filmed ahead of its official reveal later this month.<\/p>\n

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@zoox<\/a> going all in filming at the @FairmontSF<\/a> today. Looks like 2021 to me! Exciting future ahead of us! #selfdrivingcars<\/a> #innovation<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/8XjS4qPOcV<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Christian Claus (@Christian1Claus) December 6, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Zoox, perhaps one of the lesser talked about self-driving startups, hasn\u2019t kept its vehicles entirely under wraps, though.<\/p>\n

Over the past few years it\u2019s made no effort to obscure its test vehicles, which have taken the form of modified SUVs, or its autonomous vehicle platform with no bodywork. <\/span>Really, with these images, we finally get confirmation over how its bodywork will look.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Steve Jurvetson – via Flickr<\/a><\/figcaption>
<\/i><\/a>Zoox Test Vehicles at the original HQ, a former firehouse at SLAC. The VH moniker was used for all the early proof-of-concept test vehicles. It is a reference to an early disparaging press report that Zoox was just \u201cvaporware horseshit.\u201d They embraced and extended to make that manifest!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What\u2019s also clear, is that it will have bus-style doors on the side in the middle of the vehicle, which will allow passengers to climb aboard and disembark with ease.<\/p>\n

[Read: Why AI is the future of home security<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

With that, it also seems that all passenger seats will face each other, oriented towards the middle of the vehicle. We saw this as a possibility when the company hosted a press day at its HQ, and its VH1 test vehicles had that same layout.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Reddit – u\/lakhailb87<\/figcaption>
<\/i><\/a>Image shared on Reddit by Lakailb87. Zoox appeared to be filming outside a hotel in San Francisco. The LiDAR sensors on each corner are clearly visible. If it wasn\u2019t for the red lights, it would be hard to know whether this car is coming or going.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Obviously, there is no space for a human driver, because being a self-driving car, it doesn\u2019t need one.<\/p>\n

Zoox has also teased a reveal video on its YouTube, which gives virtually nothing away, but does show the shape of the headlights and an obscured silhouette.<\/p>\n